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...certainly don’t expect people who aren’t black to know quite what it feels like when you glimpse the world your children will grow up in and realize it will treat them better than it treated you. I do not expect anyone who has not experienced it to understand what it feels like to be frowned at in a high-end store or ogled at by tourists in Harvard Yard surprised to see a black person in a Harvard sweater. I do not expect anyone who has not experienced it to understand what it feels...
...crude to expect progress toward peace (or pacifism) from yesterday’s modest tribute to our soldiers. But it should be clear that to combine this holiday’s solemn, sometimes effusive remembrance with active, objective consideration of war—and the hope for the future reduction of its dire consequences—does not in any way diminish the respect that is due to the veteran. If anything, it assigns greater importance to the historical and political significance of war and the military...
There's a code that everyone understands when you're traveling, the unspoken semantics of road sex. If you take a musician home with you after the gig, you can't expect anything except a good time. Nobody goes into a one-night stand expecting to fall in love - though it happens...
...Reasonable and realistic observers long have warned enthusiasts of whatever candidate or party not to expect government and other political institutions to be capable of solving every problem. More important than ingrained assumptions and ideologies about government’s proper role, however, are the inherent limits of politics...
...long table, but at adjacent booths. We were not happy.2. Dress for the tropics. Every table has a heating plate in the middle to keep the broth simmering. The restaurant felt like the steam room at the neighborhood gym. It smelled, however, like wet dog.3. Don’t expect the full menu. By the time we sat down, everyone was sweaty and disgruntled, but a look over the menu livened things up for a time. They offer a nice selection of dunkables for your shabu—beyond the traditional beef there was chicken, pork, tofu, and even deluxe...