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...make it great. But what good is that diversity if people from different ethnic backgrounds can't talk to and learn from each other? What good is that diversity if we don't understand the nation that we live in and the government that serves us? Diversity for the sake of diversity is worthless. For it to be worthwhile, it must improve and inspire us. It certainly should never place barriers between us. Unfortunately, allowing immigrants to avoid learning the language and about our values and government does just that: It leads to forced self-segregation and denies them...
...simplest response to this poll is that the 1000 women surveyed are not representative of the mood of the entire female population of the country. I really want to believe that. But for the sake of argument, let's imagine that this poll does represent a shifting attitude on the part of women towards religious influence on political life in America. Let's imagine that there really are lots of people who watch "Touched by an Angel" every week. It's time to start paying attention to that shifting attitude...
...shocked everyone, but for the club's sake, it had to be done," Ahn said...
...department strongly encouraged juniors to consider not writing a thesis at their honors meeting early last spring," Manoni says. "Kathy Boutry, who held the meeting, told us...that it was better to do well in our English classes senior year than to write a thesis for the sake of writing...
...difference between baseball and football: the role of time. A baseball game may in theory go on forever: it ends only with the last out. Football binds itself to the existential tragedy of the clock. Did not Nietzsche write of "acting against time and thus on time, for the sake of a time one hopes will come?" Fleeting time aligns football in metaphysical parallel with life itself: All mortals play with the clock running. Football faces up to the pressure and poignance of its deadline, the official's fatal, final gunshot. Or something like that...