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...discriminate against low-income students with no clear national gain. The consequences of the legislation therefore threaten the American ideals of access to unconditional secondary education for all and the right of Americans to make their own choices about their interests and vocations. The grants are thus a grievous error...
...comparison,” Park wrote. “The water buffalo incident surrounded racial prejudice already latent on campus. Sex is sex.”BACKING DOWNAnd this time around, the university backed down.According to Geier, university officials said that they had “made a grievous error” and they were dropping all the charges at a recent meeting.The university does not acknowledge error in its official statement, which Geier said was “some confusing mishmosh and an attempt to save face.”Both Kors and Geier criticized the OSC?...
...keep witnessing how slyly the market promotes our liberation through consumer goods. The commercialism of 1970s counter-culture, for example, has been analyzed by Bass Professor of English Louis Menand. A more recent example of the way advertising makes kitsch out of genuine languages of self-definition is the grievous use of the motto of Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man”—“I am what I am”—to sell sneakers. Pseudo-sociological categories such as the “metrosexual man?...
...with dismay that I hear the worn-out excuses offered by both liberal and militant Muslims for committing grievous crimes against innocent people. The world is not a perfect place, but when the rest of us don't get what we want, we aren't hell-bent on bringing down the whole house. My advice to clearheaded Muslims is to look closely and honestly at the real reasons behind the scourge of terrorism. If they do not, then self-destruction is inevitable. James Gogo Bonny, Nigeria...
...genuine commitment to finding a common moral ground that will allow all peoples to choose the faith that best fits their needs. William M. Diekmann Phoenix, Arizona, U.S. It is with dismay that I hear the worn-out excuses offered by both liberal and militant Muslims for committing grievous crimes against innocent people. The world is not a perfect place, but when the rest of us don't get what we want, we aren't hell-bent on bringing down the whole house. My advice to clearheaded Muslims is to look closely and honestly at the real reasons behind...