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...point of view expressed above, with its emphasis on fluidity, indicates the reason for The Crimson’s strictures on a most rigid J.F. Dulles, a certain lack of backbone was its main criticism of vice-president Dick Nixon, the Achilles heel of the Republican Party...
...preconceived ideas and prejudices out there to stop you from doing what you want if you give in to them," Koné says. "Perhaps my strength is that I don't accept those limits." Airness's founder insists there'd be a lot more chances to go around if rigid French attitudes could limber up in U.S. style. "In America, if a 15-year-old kid from the Bronx has a million-dollar idea, there's no debate about what's possible: the kid is ceo, and people get to work behind him," laughs Koné. "France has lots...
...centuries a rigid caste system governed social mobility among Hindus in India. High-ranked Brahman priests, for example, were forbidden to share food, water or even shadows with Dalits-sweepers and laborers often called "outcastes" or "untouchables." When India became independent in 1947, untouchability was officially abolished, and in 1990 authorities reserved 22% of state university places and at least 12.5% of government jobs for Dalits and members of the lower castes. But caste continues to haunt India. Last week the government reserved an additional 27% of university seats for groups that are officially known as the Other Backward Classes...
...that his “opinion was formed relatively early.” “I arrived at Harvard around the same time as the Core in ’78,” Schmid observed, “I always felt that the Core curriculum was too rigid.”Historian Caroline Elkins, another new addition to the council, won a Pulitzer Prize this year for her book on British colonial rule in 1950s Kenya—a work that began to take shape while she was a graduate student at Harvard.Elkins, who is Foster associate professor...
...protects the feelings of his ailing mother by pretending the Wall is still standing and the G.D.R. is intact. That may be an amusing concept for most cinemagoers. For many east Germans, struggling to find their feet in the new realities of a reunited Germany, and missing the rigid certainties of life in a totalitarian state, it struck a deeper chord. In retrospect the G.D.R. really didn't seem all that malign, just a bit comical with its puttering cars, camp displays of military might and empty shelves. But now, it seems, east Germans may finally be ready to take...