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...impediment. "Right from the start, I thought, No one can keep me from being an artist." He speaks of feeling the inaccessibility of Africa. "There is an incredible pain," he says, "that we black people feel at not being able to reach back and touch the country of origin the way that every other hyphenated American can and does. Being there made me realize how inescapably American I was--not African. You know you must embrace your identity as an American, not wallow in the idea that you're some kind of displaced, tribal person. Here you have responsibilities...
...Would Tung have called Buddhists "evil cultists" because some monks had committed self-immolation? Would he have banned Buddhism? Before answering, he and his supporters would do well to ponder the following. Communism is as alien to China as Catholicism was to Vietnam?both are European in origin. By contrast, Falun Gong's teachings, however simplistic and superstitious, are rooted in three ancient Chinese traditions: Qigong, Taoism and Buddhism. Those in China who still profess to believe in communism are as small a minority as Catholics were in Vietnam. Perhaps a few Falun Gong followers did burn themselves to death...
...wrote Samuel Taylor Coleridge, getting to the dead center of all human stories, "is an evil which has its ground or origin in the agent, and not in the compulsion of circumstances...
...WORLD WIDE WORDS www.worldwidewords.org LETTER MAN Edited by Michael Quinion, a researcher for the Oxford English Dictionary, this quirky, surprising site explains the meaning of obscure words (like astrobleme) and traces the origin of phrases...
...survey, just 62 percent of the random sample replied. Before generalizing their responses to Harvard students, we need to know whether the 38 percent who did not answer differ systematically from the respondents. Survey research routinely compares the respondents with nonrespondents on known attributes (concentration, sex, economic background, national origin) that allow inferences about the extent of nonresponse bias...