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...less zealous applicants, as each student must turn in a 10-page application to be reviewed by the 14-person Special Concentration Standing Committee. The committee meets to review applications three times each year and each time rejects a substantial number of students. Rejected applicants often fail to distinguish a unique program of study or to convince the committee they are not just trying to devise a plan that excuses them from tedious introductory coursework in another field. According to Foster, there is no cap to the number of students who will get approval for a special concentration?...
...Fridays. At midnight I don't even rush to grab the remote. Not until 12:20 a.m. do I turn on the set. The colors are blinding, the fast cuts almost nauseating. I tune into E!'s Wild on the Adriatic, and everything seems nonsensical; I can't distinguish pixilated breasts from pixilated buttocks. I am a caveman...
...American proscription against cousin marriages grew in the 19th century as wilderness settlers tried to distinguish themselves from the "savage" Indians, says Martin Ottenheimer, author of the book Forbidden Relatives: The American Myth of Cousin Marriage. "The truth is that Europeans were marrying their cousins and Native Americans were...
...European descent. On the contrary, there are large populations of Ethiopian, Jordanian, Iranian, Egyptian, Turkish, and Palestinian Jews living in Israel. These Israeli citizens serve in the army and defend their lives and the lives of other innocent civilians. In fact, many times, it is difficult to distinguish between a Jewish Israeli and a Palestinian Arab because both are of semitic descent—both are of the same race...
...when murder of innocents is the means, the ends become meaningless and unimportant. Every terrorist, whether from Hamas, al Qaeda, the IRA, or any other such organization, thinks that his ends justify his means. As a practical as well as a moral matter, therefore, it is unacceptable to distinguish terrorists from one another based on their perceived goals, for doing so simply serves to encourage other terrorists, who may or may not have ends that we think are acceptable...