Word: notionally
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Still, Appiah feels "race" is a category we can do without, He rarely uses the word without quotation marks around it, and calls it a biologically meaningless, even dangerous method of classifying people. The notion that people of the African diaspora are united by a common "racial" heritage is a fiction invented by the Western mind, he says...
...that no one earn money strictly for an appearance in the Games is one indication of the enduring strength of the Olympic ideal. The fact that one non-N.B.A. basketball player, Christian Laettner, has been included on the American squad seems to be yet another bow to the notion of sport for its own sake. The gesture bespeaks an ambivalence -- one that will not soon vanish from the Games...
...give everybody everything." Clinton could endorse Reich's honest explanation, but he won't. Against the evidence, he protests that he scaled back his middle-class tax-rate cut because of a worsening deficit. In fact, between the appearance of the tax-cut notion last winter and its truncation three weeks ago, the numbers changed hardly at all. And it was he, not the media and his rivals, who made "too much" of the idea. Tax relief for the middle class was the centerpiece of Clinton's first economic plan and a staple of his early stump speeches...
...founder of Time, Henry Luce, would snort at the notion that his company should provide a value-free forum for the exchange of ideas. In Luce's system, editors were supposed to make value judgments and promote the truth as they saw it. Time has moved far from its old Lucean rigidity -- far enough to allow for dissenting essays like this one. That evolution is a good thing, as long as it's not a handy excuse for abandoning all standards...
...Bosnia, the notion of "one's own kind" is the operative force in the disastrous conflicts. Enmity between Serbs and Croats, Christians and Muslims, makes each group feel that the other must be destroyed so that what belongs to "us" can be taken back from "them." to us, it seems clear that the Serbian aggressors are in the wrong--but might not this conviction stem from guilt over America's own attempted to subsume minorities into a larger whole...