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...Rosales' experience teaches us anything, it is that Harvard needs a new, more honest approach to ethnic issues. Multiculturalists can no longer pretend to derive their legitimacy from any kind of coalitional "solidarity" among equally oppressed minority groups against an academic establishment they consider inherently recalcitrant to--even threatened by--challenges to white Eurocentric hegemony. A true multiculturalism can and should appeal to the very values that the academy holds dearest: thoroughness, accuracy, and, above all, curiosity. Moreover, we should set aside indiscriminate demands for more ethnic "representation" in the curriculum to embrace a new, more nuanced approach to ethnicity...
...shame that the illogic of the system encourages me to put on my barong, parade around in it and pretend it's been important in my life...
...NICE THING ABOUT FEMALE singer-songwriters is that they don't have to pretend to be guys. Guy singers do. Dead scared of being tagged sensitive, they get muscle-bound in machismo; it cramps their style and muddies their palette. But Annie Lennox or Bonnie Raitt or Mary-Chapin Carpenter can find shading in passion, a smile in sorrow. Especially in sorrow. For these artists, love is a thing felt most deeply when it's lost. So their songs are mostly past tense: the awful stuff that happened to them, the brave face they can put on it. They must...
...finger of God in the creation of the universe." Coyne thinks the Pope was wrong to "take a scientific conclusion and interpret it in favor of supporting a theological doctrine." Working scientists "don't need God for our scientific understanding of the universe," he says, because "we don't pretend to have all the ultimate answers...
...interviewed Lozano myself twice," Gutheilsaid. "This was a very lethal guy--people wouldhave to have guts to treat him. The Lozanofamily...was able to pretend that, instead ofbeing a dangerous, suicidal junkie, he was abright young...