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...fair to indict West and Gates for their new book on the basis that we are being misled? Perhaps. The most (startling?) interesting sentence of Early's review is one that comes in the last paragraph: "...Mr. Gates is far more honest than Mr. West is about the rank opportunism concealed in his (and all) bourgeois ambition." Regardless of who is more honest about it, the idea that "rank opportunism" features in the efforts of either West or Gates is a serious claim that could make us question why they are as prolific as they...
...believe that "rank opportunism" is why Cornel West and Henry Louis Gates are where they are--in the top tier of intellegensia, black or white...
...light of this statistic, perhaps we should condone taking advantage of opportunity instead of condemning it as "rank opportunism". To make progress in this country where a third of the black male population between the ages of 20 and 29 are or have been involved with the criminal justice system, opportunism might be an unfair word for legitimate struggle...
...control the entire $28 billion annual intelligence budget, most of which heretofore was under the control of the Department of Defense. It didn't take a master spy to find out the winner in this game: John Deutch, only the second director of Central Intelligence to hold Cabinet rank, and clearly becoming the most powerful spymaster Washington has ever seen...
...date the military believed he died. In 1990, during a visit to the memorial, Toni, who now works for naval procurement, was searching for the names of friends who had died in Vietnam. "I just flipped back to the Tonis, and the directory had my name. They had my rank and service right, except that I was alive. I showed my wife, and we didn't believe it at first. But then we located my name on the wall too [on panel 7W, line 121]. We just stood there embracing...