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...from me to sully the frivolity that I’ve spent an entire academic year creating in this, my hallowed column space. Conversations about Cornel or the plight of Af-Am at Harvard are reserved for a more earnest forum. No, when talking about race-based issues in the twenty-first century, I can’t help but rant about something a bit less important, a bit more…well, glam...
...controlled media have long been replete with fervent anti-Israeli propaganda in a deliberate attempt to deflect attention from corruption and mismanagement at home. Endless television replays of the most brutal scenes of the Israeli occupation have hammered home the message that Egypt's most urgent concern is the plight of the Palestinians. At the same time, what is still a military-based regime justifies large expenditures on the armed forces amid extreme poverty by boasting of their strength. Mubarak therefore risks becoming the prisoner of his own propaganda: If Palestine is all-important and Egypt that strong...
...part of her bad blood, Sage also inherits her grandfather’s moral laxity, according to her parents. At the age of sixteen she becomes pregnant and marries, much to her parents’ dismay. Sage is expected to give up and accept her plight as a teenage mother and failed scholar. She does not do as expected...
...consensus among not only Western and Arab governments, but also among at least half of Israel's electorate and at least the same proportion of Palestinians. The Bush administration needs to forcefully assert that vision - and make it more specific on issues such as sharing Jerusalem, and addressing the plight of Arab refugees in a manner that maintains Israel's Jewish majority...
Moynihan’s thesis proved controversial and was criticized by many civil rights leaders for what they saw as blaming black Americans for their plight, yet over 35 years later it remains influential...