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...Crimson's editorials posit a disconnect between the Core's theoretical underpinnings and its practical execution. The editors cite, for example, an absence of features linking courses in the same Core area (i.e.: Social Analysis 10: "Principles of Economics" and Social Analysis 34: "Knowledge of Language"). What can this "radically different" duo possibly share? Simply that each fulfills a common aim of the courses in Social Analysis, namely to familiarize students with some of the central approaches to the social sciences and to do so in a way that gives students a sense of how those approaches can enhance their...
...TIME: In the book you posit that slavery and freedom emerged from the same roots in Western society. How did those contradictory concepts arise together...
Another issue that leaves the audience unfulfilled is the dangling threads running throughout the film. The Virgin Suicides unfolds more episodically than narratively, leading the film to posit questions and leaving them unresolved. After Cecilia's death, two characters have visions of her a la Sixth Sense, yet nothing more is ever revealed or expounded on concerning these visions. Also, our neighborhood narrators introduce us to the Lisbon's sister and observe the girls from across their house across the street, but half-way through the movie this observation theme is abandoned, and the audience is introduced to a different...
...that Mashantucket Pequot identity is premised solely upon economic incentive. But at the same time, for many of those who have moved back to the reservation after years away or for those, like Regina Kirchner, who have little direct knowledge of their indigenous heritage, it is hard to posit much in terms of their motivation aside from enlarged economic opportunity...
Legal experts posit that the prosecution knew, from the very beginning, they wouldn't get the murder convictions they asked for - while Diallo's death was bloody, it was not deliberate. It was the horrible by-product of the frayed psyches of young cops. And although the jury is likely to agree that Diallo's parents deserve justice for their son's killing, jurors will likely embrace the opportunity to acknowledge the varying degrees of guilt among the four police officers...