Word: parallele
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...fiction, the cruelties experienced in childhood might be used to explain the adult who survived them, but Vargas Llosa does not attempt to make such connections here. The sections on the campaign and those on his youth run along parallel tracks, and the story of his early life trails off after he graduates from college and decides to go to Europe and write. Both stories have a matter-of-fact air about them that suggests the author is more inerested in remembering his past than in interpreting...
...highways, blocking South Korean reinforcements trying to move north. In four weeks, Kim Il Sung's troops would capture Pusan, erasing the mistake their predecessors made 44 years earlier, when Northern forces failed to reach the port before U.S. reinforcements arrived to drive them back across the 38th Parallel...
...issue isn't one of competence with regard to topics important to people of color--white professors can and should teach ethnic groups' histories, literature, etc., and advise their students of color--but of breadth. Most minority faculty can illuminate their presentations of, for example, American history with a parallel account of how this history was perceived by members of an outgroup, being a member of such an outgroup, whereas a white professor probably could not. And, being of color, minority faculty can also provide a degree of empathy to students of color that white professors, probably not having experienced...
Americans inhabit, so to speak, two parallel realities. There is the virtual reality created by media spinning and cultural circuses and gladiatorial spectacles of exemplary pseudomoral combat (Harding v. Kerrigan, Bobbitt v. Bobbitt) -- an intimate cartoonish universe where the member is severed and sewn back on. And then there is the reality of . . . reality. Places like, say, Bosnia and Haiti belong to the reality of reality...
...have gone from trading in pretend corporations to trading in parallel time lines. Derivative speculation will make many people rich -- mainly the data cowboys. The rest of us are on the road to big losses. Again...