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...jarring that these stereotypes go unquestioned on a campus that prides itself on its diversity and tolerance. Speaking out against such unthinking bigotry often elicits a knee-jerk response, usually featuring phrases like “politically correct” and “thought police,” and the accusation of having no sense of humor. Sometimes it’s hard to figure out where the line is between trying to spice up the party scene and being culturally insensitive. But it’s also true that if we need to get our jollies from making...
...Subway Series" follows several months in the life of Tina, a New York high school student. She goes to the Met, reads alty comix and feels sentimental about the decaying buildings of her city. She occasionally sees James, a pig-nosed college-age jerk who pressures her for sex. Meanwhile she has started to develop an increasingly romantic relationship with Evan, a schoolmate she takes guitar lessons from, although he has a girlfreind. With this triangle driving the story Leela Corman creates a portrait of the overly-adult lives of New York's middle-class teenagers...
...Remember, you don’t have to be a sketchy jerk with no respect for women to get into the A.D....but it don’t hurt...
...Pakistan now have common enemies, among them the Pakistani-trained militants who are as offended by India's attempts to impose itself in Kashmir as they are by Islamabad's entreaties to the Western world. And yet both countries continue to blame each other at every possible opportunity, knee-jerk responses that would be tediously predictable if the potential implications weren't so terrifying. The worry is that instead of cracking down on domestic extremists who threaten true progress, what Aqil Shah, an Islamabad political analyst and author, calls a "relentless exchange of accusations" will occasion a return...
...hopes that the president and Board of Overseers will at least respect the arguments and motives of all those in Cambridge and elsewhere, racially and religiously diverse, who call for an end to knee-jerk financial support of a regime with a shameful record of racism and official terrorism toward impoverished, displaced people. The latter, by the way, deserve human rights regardless what views they themselves have come to hold toward Jews, Israelis or Americans...