Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Austin W. So has a lot to learn. Just because he is ready to meld into some mold that others created for him does not mean that everyone has to do so. Since the SATs are culturally biased and he insists that "African American and Latino students [should] know what those things are [dividends, shareholders, checkmate, and chess]," he should also support the idea of integrating their cultural ideas in the test, and insist that everyone else learn them, too. Wouldn't it be nice if we were all familiar with the insignificant aspects of every culture that only...
...vice versa. This does not seem to be a message that breeds understanding, but it is an idea that So needs to think about. I, personally, am all for "cross-cultural" learning; I actually think it ideal and beautiful, but I find it absurd and insulting that So insist some people conform or yield while others...
...enough to insist on having a real job as First Lady. Nor was it enough to begin reinventing America's health-care system. This time Hillary Rodham Clinton has done something really radical: she has made it almost impossible for people to peg her with a permanent caricature. First came the Republican version of a sharp-elbowed, pointy-headed wife determined to play out her ambition through her husband's campaign for the White House; then came Hillary as a cross between Betty Crocker and Joan of Arc, a cathartic role model for women who need to believe that someone...
...stake, and the taxpayers, who will have to pick up the bills. All have been subjected to months of wildly confusing and contradictory reports. Some apparently were Administration trial balloons, launched to test the reaction of the public and special-interest groups. Many more, or so White House insiders insist, were leaks from some of the 500-plus members of the Administration's health-care task force, who greatly exaggerated -- probably even to themselves -- how seriously their bosses were taking their ideas...
...civil rights movement, for one thing. The theater has always been home to a disproportionate share of gay artists because the environment was tolerant and, perhaps, because their lives already involved illusion, role playing and disguise. Many artists have come out of the closet in life and insist on doing so in their work. Says Destiny's Kramer: "Ten years ago, we would have been fashioning heterosexual material. Now people just...