Word: doubtfulness
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...Just as the housing system to which we all submit was born out of a concern for preserving diversity, undergraduates’ impulse to foster House pride is the product of our diversity-conscious culture. Diversity is ultimately a positive societal goal—there seems to be little doubt about that. Yet it also makes for strange behavior. When people are lumped together with those with whom they may not have much in common, there’s an impulse to find some connection to celebrate. When this happened to 1,600 Harvard freshmen yesterday morning, the celebration...
...revote in Florida and Michigan would almost certainly have strengthened that argument. If it happens, "I have no doubt at the end, when Puerto Rico votes [in June], Senator Clinton would have the most popular votes, and that could have a huge impact on the superdelegates," said Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell, a Clinton supporter who has helped raise more than $8 million in pledges of private funds to finance new contests. And if Clinton could pull ahead in the popular vote, he added, it would undercut "the whole raison d'etre of the Obama argument: How do you turn your...
...Chinese rights activists such as lawyer Gao Zhisheng agree. But most average Chinese, whatever their anger at Beijing's repression, eagerly await the Olympics. Across China, nearly everyone I have met is proud of the Beijing Games, and a boycott will only turn them against the West. Without a doubt, China's state-controlled press would play up this angle, using a boycott to demonize Western nations and to fuel Chinese nationalism, the country's most potent, and dangerous, political force. In January, the People's Daily previewed this strategy, writing that China suffers "accusations from all over the world...
...added benefit of having skated in the rink earlier this week. The team flew to Minnesota on Tuesday morning and felt out the ice in a practice yesterday.“We’re going to be settled [in Duluth] and I don’t have a doubt that we’ll be ready to go,” Vaillancourt said. “If you’re not ready, it might be a little problem.”Cahow is hoping that the third time will be the charm for her this weekend.She appeared...
...five years ago, "then maybe something will be O.K." As the world looks toward Beijing and its glittering coming-out party this August, and the Chinese government prepares to unveil all the fruits of its recent remarkable economic achievements, oppressed citizens in Tibet and elsewhere will no doubt use the same opportunity to remind the world of what has been lost in terms of freedom and humanity in the rush for those achievements. The calm scientist in monk robes, however, with his habit of looking at the deeper causes beneath every surface, will surely keep noting that the only revolution...