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Examples of the phenomenon, Honig said, include the debate about multiculturalism in education, as well as the conflict between nationalism and cosmopolitanism...
...what about a "good" loss? Can such a phenomenon possibly exist...
...textbook example of the "small world" phenomenon, Charles A. Peterson '96 discovered that a stranger who sent him a message over the Internet Relay Channel (IRC) shared a friend in common with...
...This phenomenon has increased tremendously over the last two years at both the high school and elementary level," says Robert Peck, a lobbyist for the American Civil Liberties Union. "A lot of new legislators, not only at the Congressional but at the state and local levels, including school boards, fear being swept out of office by those who are loud advocates of book banning. And it's a much more sophisticated effort than we saw ten years...
Michael M. Luo's article ("Asian-Americans: Breaking the Mold," Scrutiny, Feb. 1, 1995) parades in front of the reader a handful of Asian Americans who are ostensibly "breaking the mold," almost as a novel zoological phenomenon. In particular, he contrasts the prevalent pre-med image of Asian Americans with the exciting new venues that they find themselves in: high-rank campus publishing, student businesses and--of all impressive things--the Undergraduate Council...