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...ideal world, I think skin color would be treated like eye color or like one??s religion, whose differences we tolerate and celebrate and do not rank,” said O’Connor in her address. “But in today’s America, I’m inclined to think that race still matters in painful ways...
...believe that people would want to leave the fascinating place that is Ember City. Its inhabitants are not aware of Earth’s glorious miracles like sunsets, fall foliage, sunny days, and starry nights; what could possibly be appealing about the unknown and dangerous darkness outside when one??s home “is the only light in a dark world,” as the mayor puts it? As the adventure winds down, the movie ends with a fantastic scene that leaves the characters and the audience with a sense of awe, but also?...
...Correcting public misconceptions is certainly a worthy goal—it is important that voters are informed about the person for whom they cast their ballots. But if the process of debunking entails alienating and even implicitly vilifying part of the population, it is time to reconsider one??s tactics. In his rush to get the “facts” straight, Obama, along with McCain and the media, has only reinforced the infuriating notion that Muslims are something less than true Americans. This election has been a celebration of diversity on issues of race, gender...
We’re number one??again. The Times Higher Education World University Rankings released last week placed Harvard in the number one spot this year, for the fifth year in a row. Yale finished second, and the University of Cambridge came in third. Though there were some significant changes in the positions of schools in the rankings this year, most U.S. universities stayed pat. Brown, Penn, and Cornell moved up in the rankings while Columbia, Princeton, and Dartmouth moved down. The Hanover, N.H. college lagged behind its peers—the only Ivy to finish...
...lecture at the Harvard Kennedy School. Rashid, a correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review and Britain’s Daily Telegraph who wrote a best-selling book on the Taliban, said that the group has become a regional security problem—not just an Afghani one??and that it is causing instability in much of central Asia. “The Taliban has become a kind of brand now, not just of extremism but a model of society,” Rashid said. That “brand” largely moved into tribal areas...