Word: sectioning
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Radano's life has been a cross-section of many genres of music...
...Nation on Trial evolved from two articles published in British journals earlier this year. The first was written by Ruth Bettina Birn, the chief historian of the Canadian Justice Department's War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity Section. The second was the work of Norman G. Finkelstein, a professor of general studies at New York University and adjunct associate professor of political science at Hunter College...
...most interesting e-mails I received had to do with the Sports section. One reader was puzzled by The Crimson's repeated use of the rather archaic term "cagers" in headlines about the basketball team. Why not "Hoops," he suggested, or "B-Ball?" (A few other readers I queried on the topic said that they had never heard the term "Cagers" used in any other place, but had come to expect that The Crimson was referring to basketball...
Male students might wonder why a woman doesn't take matters into her own hands and ask out that special guy in her Chemistry or Literature section. As one friend, whom we shall call Belle in honor of her beauty, recently lamented to me, she has tried. Belle is no wallflower. After a long "marriage," her boyfriend broke up with her. In the first month following their break up, Belle estimates that she scared off at least six potential relationship candidates...
Perhaps most absurd is the controversy surrounding treatment of the founding fathers. It seems that paying unqualified tribute to George Washington and Thomas Jefferson is now a suspect act. Tours of Mt. Vernon now include a supplemental section focused on the poor condition of the slaves held there. New Orleans recently removed Washington's name from a public elementary school out of sensitivity to black students. If this process of retrospective condemnation continues, our currency may soon require quite a facelift. May I suggest Jesse Jackson for the dollar bill...