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...skyscrapered banking district of Charlotte, through Lexington's furniture factories, picking up a voter or 10 on its way between Greensboro's downtown and Burlington's outlet malls; onward, ever onward, until it comes to rest 160 miles later among the black neighborhoods of Durham. It is narrow, as narrow in some spots as one lane of the I-85 Interstate highway. Its friends call it "a string of pearls." Most people settle for "snake" or "worm." But what it is, obviously and manifestly, is a gerrymander...
...relief worker noted, "This is a political problem that is being treated with a military solution." Fear of bogging down in the country's primitive politics is exactly why first Bush and then Clinton tried to limit the mission to narrow military objectives, insisting that the U.N. take over the hard part of restoring the country as soon as basic security and aid deliveries were in place. Washington refused the job of disarming the warlords. Nor did the U.S. leave behind enough equipment to make sure the peacekeepers could decisively outgun the local thugs. The U.N. and the U.S. tacitly...
Less homey and more corporate is the one national chain which has found a permanent home in the Square. Baskin-Robbins. This narrow shop on Mass. Ave near the Hong Kong restaurant, is close by for Union dorm residents...
...vision of a wide and diverse group has, over the years, clashed with other campus conservatives who envision the campus right not as a "big tent," but as a small core group of students dedicated to a single narrow slate of ideas...
...less competition for positions of rank and power. Occurrences of racism were negligible. "The same changes you notice in the rest of society have affected Harvard students...narcissism and almost neurotic idealism," says Whiteside. "There was far less social concern...political correctness was unthinkable...the politicals were a narrow cult, just as the jocks were...