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Makabali mentions several factors that discourage undergraduates from doing this, to which my only response can be to quip that many things in life are discouraging. Having to intentionally carve out one’s own study of race theory from within a discipline that tends to dichotomize race—or having to intentionally cobble together one’s own study of the history of Asian-American marginalization and dehumanization from an amalgam of disciplines that tend to overlook their common linkages—would make for a far more robust learning experience. With those goals in mind...
...Iran. The results, said European Commission President Romano Prodi, "point to the continued existence of a bias that must be condemned out of hand." He might also have asked whether Israel has become the über-Jew, a legitimate target where individual Jews are not. There is a quip ascribed to the Israeli psychoanalyst Zvi Rex: "The Germans will never forgive the Jews for Auschwitz," meaning that Germans (and all of Europe that let it happen) do not want to live under the burden of the Holocaust forever. Hence the projection of a guilt - as most recently executed by Martin...
During the debate before the war with Iraq, White House officials noted that when their boss and Tony Blair answered the same questions, the Prime Minister's responses always seemed so much more honed and complete. And it wasn't just the accent. In the future, quipped an aide, the President should just follow his counterpart by saying, "Ditto." After Blair's visit here last week, Bush might want to give him some kind of cabinet post for that purpose. Though his six-hour stop was the diplomatic equivalent of a drive-through, Blair threw a lifeline to the President...
...Eager faces full of laughter greeted his smallest quip, but more impressive were the church-service nods that broke out among the crowd when he talked about America's place in history. "Why me? And why us?" he asked in the voice of an American Everyman. "The only answer is, because destiny put you in this place in history, in this moment in time, and the task is yours to do." A few hardboiled pols wiped away tears...
...small number of scientists willing to publish negative results may be a function of self-interest. For example, the Journal of Universal Computer Science started a section for negative results in 1997. Since then, the journal has received no submissions on negative results, leading one editorial board member to quip that the only known negative result was the failure of the section itself. Owning up to a failed hypothesis is something few scientists would be willing to do unless their peers are doing so as well. After all, admitting to getting something wrong does little to help a scientist?...