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Obama's personal appeal is made manifest when he steps down from the podium and is swarmed by well-wishers of all ages and hues, although the difference in reaction between whites and blacks is subtly striking. The African Americans tend to be fairly reserved--quiet pride, knowing nods and be-careful-now looks. The white people, by contrast, are out of control. A nurse named Greta, just off a 12-hour shift, tentatively reaches out to touch the Senator's sleeve. "Oh, my God! Oh, my God! I just touched a future President! I can't believe...
...Phil 178, “Equality and Democracy”). “Out of step” indeed. Philosophy courses are unique in their maddening, yet intriguing specificity. You’ll find this especially apparent in the 100-level classes, where the specialized interests of the professors manifest themselves in a grab bag of “nowhere-but-Harvard” courses, like Phil 152, “Philosophy of Biology,” and Phil 150, “Foundations of Space-Time Theory.” Although most upper-level classes don?...
...UNIFIL has its local headquarters, hugs the frontier, coming in some places to within two hundred yards of the fence. No Israeli soldiers were to be seen even though the border road technically lies behind the Israeli army's frontline in some places. Still, the Israeli military activity was manifest in the numerous tank tracks that criss-cross the border road and run through fields of bright green tobacco plants. The border road, a potholed single-lane route even in normal times, is pockmarked from exploding artillery rounds, the asphalt churned by caterpillar tracks...
...rural-community experiment under Eleanor Roosevelt's patronage. Home-schooled and solitary, their brilliant fourth son pursued his inclinations through a Yale dissertation on quantum mechanics - but then swerved, first to an M.D. and next to the field of genetics, whose astonishing precision and lifesaving potential were becoming manifest...
...fledgling organization, complete with artwork. Recalls Agness, "On the cover they ran an illustration of a woman dressed in a perfectly ironed pristine shirt with a checkered apron, connected to a machine with 12 babies popping out while stirring her batter and reading her recipe with the headline 'Manifest Domesticity...