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...also challenge The Crimson's assumption that true academic arguments are politics-neutral. The Crimson staff finds "something inherently political" in our demand for Ethnic Studies, and we agree. By its very nature, the study of race and ethnicity is political because it challenges the dominant. European body of knowledge that has historically posed as race-neutral and universal. Having acknowledged the inherently political nature of the call for Ethnic Studies, we are quite puzzled by The Crimson's apparent attempt to delegitimize our demands by noting that movements for Ethnic Studies have employed tactics--specifically, hunger strikes...
...June, the NHL crowned its champion of the strike-shortened season--the neutral-zone trapping New Jersey Devils, who even in the midst of celebrating their victory were plotting a move to Tennessee. Thankfully, the fair state of New Jersey prevailed on hockey's champions to remain in the Garden State--at least...
...problem may be that there is an ingredient missing. Emotional skills, like intellectual ones, are morally neutral. Just as a genius could use his intellect either to cure cancer or engineer a deadly virus, someone with great empathic insight could use it to inspire colleagues or exploit them. Without a moral compass to guide people in how to employ their gifts, emotional intelligence can be used for good or evil. Columbia University psychologist Walter Mischel, who invented the marshmallow test and others like it, observes that the knack for delaying gratification that makes a child one marshmallow richer can help...
Given the passionate arguments that are raging over the state of moral instruction in this country, it is no wonder Goleman chose to focus more on neutral emotional skills than on the values that should govern their use. That's another book--and another debate...
...Vatican took delegates to the Beijing Women's conference by surprise in quietly backing a woman's right to refuse sex, even within marriage. But TIME's Greg Burke says that the Church is relieved that this relatively neutral issue is the main focus of the conference. "While the Church is concerned that Beijing delegates are defining the family to include alternative lifestyles, and that sparse attention is being given to motherhood, at least abortion is not the primary focus here. It was at Cairo, and there, they went all out to oppose...