Word: notionalism
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...impairment on the dignity of people.'' Even so, De Klerk speaks wistfully about ''grand apartheid'' as a system that might have worked in South Africa had all the nation's diverse ethnic and tribal groups accepted geographic separation voluntarily. Mandela, a child of the oppressed majority, finds this notion hateful. It has been the labor of his life to overthrow apartheid, not because it didn't do its job but because it was morally repellent. Part of Mandela's irritation with De Klerk seems to stem from this fundamental disagreement over why change was necessary. True, Mandela largely
Murakami relaxes through translation and long-distance running. He feels that it renews his creative faculties—a notion that might be hard for anyone who has ever attempted to translate a text or to run a marathon to grasp...
...aware, www.collegehumor.com is in the process of running a nationwide contest entitled “Hottest College Girl in America.” The competition hopes to discover, well, nevermind. One Harvard undergrad, Jenna I. Shoemaker ’06, was a contender. Shoemaker first entertained the notion of entering the contest during a routine conversation with her boyfriend. “My boyfriend Jay, who graduated from Harvard last year, is working out in LA in mobile entertainment. Collegehumor is one of his company’s clients so he informed me of the contest and told...
...weeks pose an interesting dilemma. The thing about the wilderness is that if you stay there, you die. That's why the worst week of Bush's presidency actually brought with it a quiet sense of relief among some of his restless aides. "This has wakened them from their notion of infallibility," says a Bush adviser. Those who have been arguing for what would count in this White House as radical change--fresh faces, shiny plans, a wider exchange of ideas--felt that at last they had some leverage because Bush could no longer insist that everything was working just...
Appreciation With quiet courage and nonnegotiable dignity, Rosa Parks was an activist and a freedom fighter who transformed a nation and confirmed a notion that ordinary people can have an extraordinary effect on the world. In her declining health, I would often visit Mrs. Parks, and once asked her the most basic question: Why did you do it? She said the inspiration for her Dignity Day in 1955 occurred three months prior, when African-American Emmett Till's murdered and disfigured body was publicly displayed for the world to see. "When I thought about Emmett Till," she told...