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...holes, in the country's official story of itself. In The Nature of Blood, for example, he gave us Othello's story in the Moor's own voice; in Cambridge, he bestowed the name of the august English university on a doomed West Indian slave. His view does not overlook class or other races - in Foreigners he points out that more than 2,000 Jews fought for Britain in World War I, only to be greeted on their return as aliens. Yet where others complain about history, Phillips sets about remaking it, in more inclusive terms. As befits his theme...
...assessment that requires no reading, writing or speaking. The result? The number of first-graders screened for gifted placement shot up from some 100 the previous year to nearly 3,000. Says deputy superintendent Antoinette Dunbar of the decision to start testing every first-grader for giftedness: "Sometimes we overlook the very obvious...
...winter and luxury vehicles. I was shocked into reality as this lifestyle declined over time. From then on, I let the less fortunate customers look through my used-tire pile. After I closed up, I stayed to mount and balance tires for free. We all have a tendency to overlook what's often right before our eyes. David A. Robinson, BROOKSVILLE, FLORIDA...
...spirit. At a time when you couldn't always get two Baptists of different stripes to work together on a bake sale, Falwell founded the Moral Majority on the argument that fundamentalist Christians, Orthodox Jews, conservative Roman Catholics and Mormons had so much in common politically that they should overlook their theological differences. It was no good attending only to the Kingdom of Heaven, he argued, when a culture war was raging and the Supreme Court was in favor of abortion but not prayer in school...
...There's a tendency today to overlook or discount Chirac's considerable successes on the diplomatic stage - both for France, but also for the international community," says Dominique Reynie, a political commentator and professor at Paris' Fondation Nationale des Science Politiques. "Part of that is due to the lasting effects of the Bush Administration demonizing his stand on Iraq - ironic, since even most of the U.S. and British populations have come to agree with the rest of the world that Chirac's opposition was right all along. But another part is perspective: we often don't recognize the importance...