Word: grounded
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...presumably) serve only the limited number of undergraduates of legal drinking age, and would likely boost the already abundant number of graduate students at Loker. Rather than bring students together in a genial environment, alcohol would only fragment the student body beneath Memorial Hall just as it does above ground...
Indeed, the ground floor of the school's Healey Library is surrounded by a chain linked fence with signs reading, "DANGER. DO NOT ENTER. FALLING DEBRIS...
...enough when Jean Bernard Charles was shoved to the ground in handcuffs four months ago in Port-au-Prince and shot to death by four Haitian police officers for no apparent reason. But then his family complained that Haiti's U.S.-trained police should not be in the business of murdering civilians. This, they quickly discovered, was a mistake. First came the warnings: if the relatives didn't shut up, they might suffer the same fate. Then came the threats: one afternoon a few officers caught up with Charles' cousin and said he was going to be arrested. When...
Cose covers a lot of ground, from Francis Galton's eugenics theory, which equated good English breeding with racial superiority, to contemporary social-so-called-science that has attempted to give racism a respectable face. It is no surprise that Exhibit A is Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray's controversial 1994 best seller, The Bell Curve. Cose joins the chorus of critics who rightly challenged the authors' credentials and ideological ties. "There is" for them, he says, "something comforting in the belief--even if it is rooted in fiction--that certain unfortunate realities are beyond our control, that certain unfortunate...
...takes some courage to be a bleeding moderate. The center is the hardest position to defend because it invites attack from all sides. So be it. Color-Blind holds its ground because it accurately assesses the contradictory nature of U.S. race relations: they often get better and worse at the same time...