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...playsaround with the facts of her life withoutever assembling them into a character.His attitude can be embarrassingly reductive,as when Haruko describes theEmperor’s reaction to her breakdown:“The hurt frustration he showed on realizinghis insufficiency—the woundedperplexity of a deeply practical manin the face of irregularities of a femalenature (that apparently sound mechanismwhich nonetheless may decide, forwhatever reason, simply to cease functioning)—could not contain itself.”If all of Haruko’s problems, triumphs,and struggles can be so easilyreduced to capricious feminine nature,then...
...protesters, and some Law School professors,say the criteria used in hiring are unfair anddiscriminate against candidates who are not partof an "old-boy" network. Some professors arguethat a woman must be "twice as qualified" as a manin order to be hired...
This just isn't so. The university is supported by big business, wealthy men, and government grants, directly, Indirectly all this money comes from exploiting the workers and the resources of the country. One of business's manin means of exploitation is racism. It naturally follows that if businesses make huge profits by promoting racism. they are not going to allow the university to teach anti-racism or to be anti-racist: the university that did would soon be without donors...
Germany and Italy both, were moulded in the fires of revolution. But while Garibaldi defended the Janiculum and Manin led Venice to starving martyrdom, Germany talked and blustered and Bismarck had his way. Perhaps in no other gathering in the history of the world would the Vagabond have been so at home as at the National Parliament which met at Frankfort to create a united Germany, and which dispersed in the face of armed fact. There he could have satisfied his lust for unlimited declamation. Cheated of his heritage by a trick of Fate, he can at least assuage...
...Manin, J. B., Jr., student...
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