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...would infer from the length of her deanship nothing about her tenure as possible president of Harvard," said George Kateb,, a professor of politics at Princeton who is close to Gutmann...
...presumably meant for George W. Bush) had been discarded due to bureaucratic fine print, protests erupted around the country. The outrage was fueled on two fronts. First, the procedural question: How, many dissidents demanded, could Florida Democrats demand such unerring precision from military personnel while simultaneously insisting they could infer the "intent" of a largely Democratic constituency just by staring intently at "pregnant" chads? Second, a sense of enraged patriotism: Congressional Republicans were up in arms over the Democrats' move to block the ballots, threatening everything from an inaugural boycott to a Capitol Hill stalemate if the obstruction...
Many of Sevruguin's images fall under the umbrella of Orientalism; one need not look further than their use as illustrations in imperialist western texts to infer that. Also, in his studio he took pictures of white men and women dressed as Easterners. These photographs show the attitudes of the Europeans-they were sure enough of their superiority that they could dress up as Iranians just for fun or for a souvenir to send home...
...With Harvard women striving to shatter the glass ceiling, it follows that superb examples of manliness, like DI athletes, won't find an audience at the fair University. Note: the football stadium is crowded with alums only. At Harvard, we infer from Wolfe, the men are not men. Citing, of all sources, The Crimson, Wolfe notes that 80 percent of undergraduates here would only fight an American war whose cause they supported. Warrior culture, even in fantasy battles at the line of scrimmage, have no place at America's most elite college...
...wrote back, however, that he was sorry for saying "redneck." But another point, perhaps lost on him, is this: John Rocker has his own ideas about what "decent people" are. Rocker apologized for what he said. But I infer that Rocker tends to think "decent people" belong to a more homogeneous America where men marry women, and women get married before having babies, and people behave themselves in public, and men don't sleep with each other and pass around horrible diseases, and "foreigners" stay overseas where they belong...