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What you do have is a far more unusual phenomenon: a group of roaming laborers who spend half the year painting houses around the country and then return in winter to a self-contained, anachronistic universe. The Travelers arrange their children's marriages and, in front of "country people" (non-Travelers), speak a Gaelic-English dialect called "cant." ("Misli shayjo!" means "Go away, the police are here!") Some have traces of Irish accents, though their ancestors arrived in the U.S. 150 years ago. Says Michael McDonagh, one of the 30,000 Travelers still in Ireland, who has worked with hisU.S...
Granted, this is a particularly egregious example—but the phenomenon I have described is rampant at the summer school in less extreme incarnations. In the introductory economics courses, for example, the mean on tests would routinely be in the 80s and 90s—a far cry from the sub-50 percent averages that are common in Social Analysis 10: “Principles of Economics...
...this phenomenon first-hand on a campaign I worked with a few years ago. The winning candidate recognized that voter turnout would be very low since it was a special election and focused his campaign efforts on area churches and their congregations. The tactic was effective because the people he appealed to were very responsive to the religious issues raised in the campaign. The church members became his “base voters” and he won the election by a strong margin...
...Sharon government are targeted here seems strikingly naive. As we learn from the precedent of South Africa, divestment is a tool far too powerful and destructive to express opposition to a set of specific policies in any focused way (apartheid was much too pervasive a political and social phenomenon to be called a policy). Rather, the divestment strategy was aimed at the very foundations of a morally repugnant state. Whatever the intent of the signers, the strategy chosen cannot help but say that we as a moral community cannot tolerate our hands being dirtied by association with the State...
...seekers of absolute truth or greater meaning for their lives" provide a rich field for terrorists to harvest. The cases of John Walker Lindh and Jose Padilla, coupled with the arrests in Lackawanna and earlier in Detroit and Oregon, suggest that the U.S. may already be facing the same phenomenon...