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...Russians. What was truly surprising was that the matter exploded. For that, credit is due to Jacques Rogge, the new president of the International Olympic Committee. It was Rogge who pressed on Cinquanta the idea to award a second set of gold medals to Sale and Pelletier--a notion suggested to him by Richard Pound, a Canadian member of the I.O.C. Rogge's joint press conference with Cinquanta was a diplomatic measure, allowing Cinquanta to say that the second gold was his idea. "It was the most graceful way of handling it," says Pound...
Prudence L. Carter, an assistant professor of sociology, speaks about the existence of “a notion of fictive kinship among African-Americans.” Referring to Loury’s negative reception by the black community, she explains, “One is considered to be a transgressor because he or she doesn’t hold to the racial party line. Blackness is equated with a certain political and social orientation. Anyone outside of the dominant conceptualization of it will find themselves sanctioned...
...Over–stocked” are crucially interdependent—none make full sense apart from the context of the others. Wing begins the discussion deceitfully, suggesting that the show will be a trite critique of consumer culture. Quickly, though, Mueller and Ryoo dissolve this notion and turn the critical microscope onto art itself. And finally, gracefully, O’Reilly gestures at a resolution. Together, the artists’ work comprises an organism, and any attempt to understand it atomically or deconstructively will be misinformed...
Gayle: Well, I think it is very much who he is, with this whole freedom of speech notion and academic freedom. Look at Professor Mansfield, he can say whatever the hell he wants...
...When she was supposed to be the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, Bill Clinton and those that sunk her nomination in Congress never read her stuff. There is an assumption, perhaps, that black excellence is exceptional or somehow out of place or outside the norm. There is that notion that black excellence is not supposed to be too widespread. I think that when we position people like Cornel West and Skip Gates as the sort of paradigmatic examples of black excellence things like this unleash the possibility for people to question black excellence and to talk shit about black...