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Repeating the season's ritual...
Even for the vague, elliptical world of international diplomacy, it was a desultory summit. After a ritual wiping of hands and sipping of tea, the two leaders spent 2½hours (about half of it in translation) exchanging contrary views and, for all intents and purposes, agreeing only to disagree. Then, in an unfortunate conclusion to the visit, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher left her final meeting in Peking with China's senior leader, Deng Xiaoping, only to stumble face first on the broad stairs. The unintended symbolism of the spill in full view of television cameras was not missed...
...students at Ole Miss out of an enrollment of 10,000, or 7%. The university actively recruits blacks and encourages their participation in extracurricular activities. The Ole Miss football team is roughly half black; the basketball team predominantly black. In a society where organized sports are more than a ritual, Ole Miss partisans cheer their black players as enthusiastically as they do the whites, and the outstanding ones are authentic campus heroes...
...Jesus] from Galilee and the Decapolis and Jerusalem and Judea and from beyond the Jordan." This moves the action along briskly, but at the sacrifice of historical detail. Many complicated sections are cut altogether, such as those Old Testament family trees and lists of kings and much of the ritual law in Leviticus...
...fairly meaningless ritual," agrees Stephen Thernstrom, Winthrop Professor of History using a them that crops up in such discussions almost as often as "tradition." Thernstrom underscores students unrealized power when he adds. "If you get used to it and don't get it, you think, My God, what am I doing wrong...