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...would hope that our society has evolved beyond the point where anyone would argue that there exists in an individual qualities that can be imputed as a result of his or her race. To justify the placement of a value—positive or negative—on a person based on skin color or sexual orientation requires resorting to the flawed logic of determinism. According to this paradigm, a person exists first not as an individual, but rather as a member of a homogeneous group, and exhibits specific characteristics directly as a result of this categorization...
...positively in the Dutch edition of Playboy. He runs to the kitchen and returns with the well-thumbed magazine. No one at the table can read Dutch, but the review is adjacent to a photo of a universally understood naked Naomi Campbell. Who wouldn't be happy with such placement...
...that made Google great (ranking websites in order of usefulness, loading in a split second) with continually updated information from thousands of Web merchants. You can enter a price range and get pictures of products before clicking on the links. Best of all, merchants don't pay for prominent placement within results (a common practice at shopping search sites like Dealtime.com and Bizrate.com) Although it's still in beta, or test, mode--and so far lacks the option to list the cheapest results first--Froogle is in good enough shape to help you navigate the postholiday sales from the comfort...
...Office of Career Services (OCS) will enter the upcoming semester without its expert on job placement for graduate students...
Although students from the Harrington and Fitzgerald Schools will receive what D’Alessandro calls “priority transfer rights” to move to any school within the district—which operates under a choice system for elementary school placement that balances for race and socioeconomic status—parents worry that the student bodies would be broken...