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...into the suburban psyche. In recent presidential elections women have leaned Democratic by at least 8 percentage points, and after his Boston convention, they favored Kerry by 14. But in recent weeks that margin has vanished, and some polls have shown Bush pulling ahead even among women. So the notion that fear of terrorism was driving normally Democratic women into the Bush camp provided the theorists with a story line and led the Kerry camp to seek out allies like the 9/11 widows...
When Saul Williams last graced us with his words, in the form of the glorious epic poem, “, said the shotgun to the head,” he gamely disproved the notion that black male artists are nothing without their masculinity...
...television show or a mainstream film, the only thing you’re allowed to discuss on screen in direct relation to your identity is the fact that you have a penchant for naughtiness with those of your own gender. In other words, Hollywood saps queers of any notion of a fluidity of identity—they must be gay every single second. Every motivation or action by a queer character must be rooted in easily discernible, usually stereotypical ‘gayness...
...will definitely not miss the career fair. It’s really informative and helpful,” Murstein said, who walked into last year’s career fair just with the notion that he wanted to go into finance...
...charges of plagiarism are correct, it should not matter what motivated the magazine to publish them, be it ideology, personal jealousy, or a simple search for truth. The Dershowitz notion that the legal profession is uniquely exempt from attribution because it relies on briefs and therefore has different standards than other academic disciplines is nonsense. Dershowitz does not like the fact that the charges surfaced in The Weekly Standard, a conservative publication. So what? What if the charges had been made in a liberal publication? Would that make them more credible in his eyes? Intellecutal honesty is more important than...