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...While it is true that arbitrary segregation based on gender is inappropriate and unjustified, the facts of this particular educational initiative are more nuanced. While these schools do separate boys and girls, it is unfair to say that they “segregate” students, for any student wishing to learn in a coeducational setting always has the option to opt out of the program. Also, it should be noted that such separation exists only in middle-school classrooms and, for that matter, only in certain subjects. The schools themselves are not separated, and students are still afforded normal...
...This is the reason behind the Obama team's madcap multitasking. As press secretary Robert Gibbs put it the other day, the whole American house is on fire, not just the particular room where the flames happen to be roaring. "Are you going to call the fire department and ask them to put all of it out?" Gibbs asked. "Or are you going to say, 'You know what? We love the living room. Start over there. And if you can, get quickly to the kitchen, and next to the den.' We could do that. And maybe by the time they...
...fairy shrimp- / eggs which hatch after fifteen years.” Poets have used lists to great effect before. But unlike Gerard Manley Hopkins in “Pied Beauty,” a poem similarly concerned with nature and spirituality, Nilsson merely lists. The words above have no particular rhythmic quality; the enjambments do not aid the poem’s flow. This list style, prevalent throughout the collection, ensures that these images, individually so enigmatic and striking, lose their impact and individuality. The reader would need endless patience, not to mention an excellent dictionary, to parse the intricacies...
...David Brooks. She does not, however, face such issues.It seems as though Brooks and those in his camp are perturbed, perhaps, by something they find more fundamentally unsettling: the First Lady’s overwhelming capacity for duality. She is strong and motherly, sensual, while still serious and successful. Particularly, it seems that many are concerned with how the coexistence of these traits might come across as threatening when exhibited by one woman. In this light, “cover them up” can be viewed as a veiled call for self-segmentation.Michelle Obama seems to have harmonized what...
...scene outside the proceedings took on a circus atmosphere. Apart from victims dispensing quotes ("There's no shame. We're all victims"), an array of New York City characters paraded by to promote their particular causes and enterprises. A drag queen and a court jester from the Imperial Court of New York carried signs advertising a "Night of a Thousand Gowns." They went practically unnoticed as hundreds of reporters, both print and television, chased after anyone who could provide a sound bite on Bernie Madoff...