Word: notionalism
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...HAVE A VIEW ON WHO SHOULD SUCCEED ANNAN AS SECRETARY-GENERAL? I have lots of views on lots of things. But the official American position is, we have never accepted any notion of geographical rotation and we favor the best-qualified candidate, wherever that candidate comes from. If the best-qualified person is an Asian, we'd be delighted. If the best-qualified person is from somewhere else, we'd be delighted at that too. Western Europe has had three Secretaries-General, Latin America has had one, Africa has had two, and Asia has had one. Eastern Europe has never...
...Weinreich, took time off from his linguistic research during the Second World War to write “Hitler’s Professors,” documenting the participation of some of Germany’s leading academics in the Nazi movement. This book should lay to rest the notion that there is any necessary correlation between the kind of intelligence that wins Nobel Prizes and the kind of political humility that democracy requires. In fact, because they consider themselves intellectually superior to the rest of the population, academics tend to be uncommonly impatient with the democratic process...
...sick and tired of the notion that being a full-time parent means a workingwoman has given up on the feminist cause. Feminism was meant not to turn women into men but to give women the freedom to choose to work inside or outside the home. Having lived in Germany for seven years, I appreciate that it is truly difficult for German women to combine career and children, yet the endless comparison of earth mother vs. career mother is pointless and divisive. It is important to realize that nowadays educated, experienced women like me are not necessarily wasting our skills...
...evening’s early game, as further fodder for subscribers to the notion of newfound neutrality, Boston University, a first-year varsity program, dominated Northeastern, the all-time leader in female Beanpot crowns with...
...Internet, though, wasn’t designed to carry just phone calls or just instant messages—it’s a general purpose vehicle.With that goal in mind, end-to-end is a policy which reflects an incredible amount of forethought: encapsulated within it is the notion that, on the Internet, it’s very difficult to tell what technologies are going to prove important in the long run. If priority had been given early on to Gopher or WAIS (two information search technologies which have gone the way of the Dodo and the 8-track...