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...Surely there must come a time when we will acknowledge the obvious: theology is now little more than a branch of human ignorance. Indeed, it is ignorance with wings...
...offended—unfortunately, foolishly, and ultimately—because she was white.I think I’ve decided—and this, just now—that my mother isn’t white. Whiteness isn’t concrete. It’s not as apparent or obvious as people make it out to be. It’s negotiated. It’s constructed. It’s malleable. Its boundaries shift so often that groups once categorically relegated to non-white status, groups highly racialized—like the Irish, the Italians, the Germans?...
...award credit to students based on their potential earnings rather than their parents’ current finances. His company gained infamy in March 2005, when The Crimson wrote an editorial calling for a boycott of DormAid, arguing that use of their dorm-cleaning service was “an obvious display of wealth that would establish a perceived, if unspoken, barrier between students of different economic means.” The Crimson editorial led to a New York Times article and an interview for Kopko on Jon Stewart’s “Daily Show...
McCain believes that hypocrisy is the “most obvious of political sins,” but his own hypocrisy is what is most galling. With help from the national media, Senator McCain has built part of his reputation on his image as a maverick in the Republican Party, a moderate who can appeal to a majority of Americans. But the facts show that John McCain is anything but a centrist, and that he is not what Americans, or the Republican Party, need for the future...
...camp are preparing to deal with his most obvious liability, his lack of experience. If the Democrats nominated Obama, who served as a Illinois state legislator for seven years before joining the Senate in 2004, he would have the shortest tenure in statewide office of any nominee from either party since 1952, when first-term Illinois governor Adlai Stevenson took on Dwight Eisenhower, who had not held elective office. One of Obama's likely opponents, Delaware's Joe Biden, served in the Senate for a decade before his Illinois counterpart even graduated from college; Obama's legislative record from...