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...associations with their respective minority status. There's a difference between an affluent black. Hispanic, or Asian student choosing not to apply for a minority scholarship and making sure female/minority applicants are considered fairly for positions they apply for. The former is a playing field of real choice, the Latter is one dictated by forces not so fair nor easily controlled. Getting to the point where minority and women candidates feel they are judged by the same standards as "everybody else" requires a little more complexity and a lot more thought than the position presented by Choi's column. --Virginia...
...view technology as a panacea, noting that though the Internet may be an excellent disseminator of information, teacher student and student - student interaction is irreplaceable. He also deplores the mutation of cultural pluralism into "multiculturalism." While the former advocates the acceptance and inclusion of all cultures, he believes the latter seems preoccupied with a dangerously divisive, ethnocentric fragmentation...
...Lawrence yearbook as an ostrich with its head in the sand, has stuck her nose into the conflict in the Middle East, the Iran-contra scandal and the marriage of Mike Tyson and Robin Givens. She is a living, talking, occasionally fawning chronicle of culture and politics in the latter half of the 20th century. She is like a redwood that...
Such complaints about Amis' sexism were not entirely misplaced. The men in his books are not always nice to or about women, and vice versa. Given a choice between what ought to be true and what actually goes on, Amis invariably chose to write about the latter...
...third year in a row the national homicide rate declined from 10.5 killings per 100,000 in 1993 to 9.7 per 100,000 in 1994-good news, to be sure, though the latter figure still represents a whopping 23,730 deaths from shooting, stabbing and other means...