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...ever this young, this sure, this innocent? There is a bittersweet melancholy about seeing someone on the brink of adulthood, all elbows and knees and untested conviction. Four years. It goes so quickly, but who can tell them? On my last day, I steal out early, trying not to disturb my two roommates. Danielle sleeps clutching her black-and-white teddy bear. Jennie has left a note on her desk. Underneath her name she has drawn a smile face...
Gorbachev on Friday presented the compromise plan, written by Shatalin and another leading Soviet economist, Abel Aganbegyan. It contains many elements of Shatalin's radical 500-day plan but would move at a slower pace and not disturb the central government's power to levy taxes...
...only works that really could even border on the pornographic would be those in the notorious "XYZ Collection". Some people wonder how graphic the photos can really be. Very graphic. Graphic enough to disturb, but isn't that in some ways the responsibility of art? To unsettle us, to define for us the extent of our own sensitivity to images that are real and true. The graphic photos, after all, are as aesthetically and technically superb as the rest of the images. We are not reacting to something in them as much as we are reacting to something...
...subject more than anything else. I often say there are about half a dozen scientific subjects that are immensely intriguing to people because they deal with fundamental issues that disturb us and cause us to wonder. Evolution is one of those subjects. It attempts, insofar as science can, to answer the questions of what our life means, and why we are here, and where we come from, and who we are related to, and what has happened through time, and what has been the history of this planet. These are questions that all thinking people have to ponder...
There is a second statement of Professor Bell's that should disturb people, for it rejects the concept of human equality. Professor Bell stated that because of his gender, he was unable to understand fully the Black female students whom he teaches and who come to him for guidance. Only a Black woman, in Professor Bell's view, can adequately serve as a teacher and role model for women of color...