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...rather as the invention of a new identity in contention with the national values of a country that has marginalized them ethnically or socioeconomically. For many young women, the headscarf is as much a symbol of repudiation of France as it is a token of belonging to Islam. The intent of the new law is not to undermine cultural diversity—there is no calling into question religious freedom outside the secular setting of public education. It will, however, disarm students of the tools they use in their public schools to define themselves as separate from or even...
Though Cornell’s program is in dire need of assistance in many areas, the signing of recruits is the most immediate concern. On Wednesday, the first day on which incoming freshmen may sign letters of intent, the Big Red lagged far behind not only Ivy powerhouses Harvard, Yale and Penn but also middlings Princeton and Dartmouth in the number of prospects locked...
...Harvard; really, they’re not so different from the departments dedicated to preparing scientists, engineers, doctors, investment bankers and the like. It seems the professors wish to prepare students who will fill the future ranks of academia. Yet many of us don’t share this intent. So, why do we study the humanities? The most useful application of what we learn will be to pepper our conversations. We’re certainly learning to become “very interesting people” who will never be short on intellectual banter...
...lost to the lures of the 1960s, it can bring to mind American Pastoral without Philip Roth's refining fires. Toward the end, Michael hears an old song on his car radio. "He liked the way the singer kept her voice so plain and ordinary," Tyler tells us, "too intent on expressing her sadness to concern herself with effect." That's the tone Tyler is generally after herself: limpid, understated, diminuendo. But the distance from there to becalmed isn't far. And this time she goes the distance...
...back down, a source in the reformist camp tells TIME, they will make good on a threat to resign en masse and possibly force their moderate leader, President Mohammed Khatami, to step down as well. "It's becoming an all-or-nothing fight," says the source. "The conservatives are intent on ousting the reformists, and the reformists are just as determined to stand up to them...