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...your senses to the noise, Unwound's underlying musical messages were easier to uncover. The difficulty was wading through the distortion and seemingly incongruous combination of vocals, bass, guitar and drums. But the triumph, and possibly Unwound's greatest ability, was the band's adroitness in crafting a latent coherence to most songs. Unwound makes its listeners work to appreciate the music...
...continue to discuss the lack of interracial unity while maintaining habits which promote self-segregation and latent racism, then all the talking in the world will not do a bit of good. We must change our behavior, journey to new social circles, and place ourselves in uncomfortable situations in order to improve race relations. When I look around the dining hall or at blocking group composition, I do not see that happening...
Rosenthal emphasized that he didn't want the discussion to be focused on "latent discrimination," but did discuss a recent incident when outside Clavery Hall several of his black friends were accosted by police officers and repeatedly asked, "Are you sure you go to Harvard...
...only to the small crop of crooked Russian multi-millionaires, is becoming harder to define. Soon it may refer to a large comfortable middle class of Russians who enjoy the prosperity of consumerism. Such a middle class, though growing, does not yet exist. Since the fall of communism, the latent class divisions of the Soviet era have risen to the surface. As one expert on Russian society told me, "Never have so many people become millionaires in so short a time as in Russia since 1991 while most people have remained so poor." Ideally, though, this prosperity...
...action. But to distinguish dialogue (as opposed to chatter) from action, or to suggest that action be pursued in the absence of dialogue, is to degrade the power of communication that makes deliberative democracy worth pursuing. Look deeply into the national dialogue on race: there is some intense power latent in those discussions--a power that President Clinton should be praised for grappling with. --Joel B. Pollak...