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Canaday offers its residents something that other dorms can't. With its six entryways, Canaday forms its own close-knit community, separate from the rest of the Yard. Each entryway, in turn, is like a small family. And although that may seem detrimental in some ways, it is actually quite refreshing to escape into the world of Canaday...
...Metternich and Castlereagh (A World Restored, 1957) and an academic paper he wrote on Bismarck. (Like a good professor, he footnotes himself.) One difference between the earlier works and Diplomacy is that Kissinger now puts slightly greater emphasis on the role of justice and values. "The Continental countries were knit together by a sense of shared values," he writes. "Power and justice were in substantial harmony...
...current challenge has come in the case of Kiryas Joel v. Grumet. Kiryas Joel is a municipality in upstate New York where virtually all citizens are in the Satmar sect of Hasidic Orthodox Jewry. Kiryas Joel adheres rigidly to Old World dress and ways and maintains a close-knit, Yiddish-speaking community that tries to shield itself from outside influences. TV, movies and even higher education are shunned...
Adams is a member of a loose-knit consortium of Afrocentrists and "melanin scholars" that includes Leonard Jeffries, the controversial chairman of black studies at City College in New York; Wade Nobles, a psychology professor at San Francisco State University; Asa Hilliard, a professor at Georgia State University; and other black scholars and psychiatrists. These "melanists," Ortiz de Montellano writes in the latest issue of the Yearbook of Physical Anthropology, provide a supposedly scientific explanation for the excessive claims of Afrocentrism...
Eugene O'Neill's play A Touch of the Poet at the American Repertory Theatre attempts to knit together the conflicting American consciousnesses of respect for an old order and the self-emancipation of the new. These dichotomies are played out in the domestic sphere of Captain Con Melody's inn during the 1828 election between John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson...