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...shade your eyes...
...mighty have fallen. In what used to be the German Democratic Republic, the Communist Party is an anorectic shade of its former self. With a peak membership of 2.3 million, it once embodied East Germany's political, intellectual, military and bureaucratic elite. Now reborn as the Party of Democratic Socialism, it has a scant 250,000 adherents, the majority of them former communist functionaries who, says one observer, "cannot believe they can hang up the socialist dream like a soiled coat." They remain loyal even though thousands have lost their jobs because of what Germans call Ausgrenzung, or discrimination against...
...possible that evil is a problem that is more intelligently addressed outside the religious context of God and Satan? Perhaps. For some, that takes the drama out of the discussion and dims it down to a paler shade of Unitarianism. Evil, in whatever intellectual framework, is by definition a monster. It has a strange coercive force: a temptation, a mystery, a horrible charm. Shakespeare understood that perfectly when he created Iago in his secular and motiveless malignity...
While Wylie insists the movie was not a life story, there is a shade of truth in the fact that at Harvard, Wylie in little-known compared to the virtual celebrities on the Crimson hockey team. This year, Harvard Athletic Director Bill Cleary awarded Wylie an honorary varsity letter for his contributions to Harvard athletics...
...past as a ruse to filter out black or brown applicants. So race norming was added as a way to make the results "color-blind." Eventually, 35 states adopted the Labor Department program in some measure. Until recently, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission encouraged firms in some cases to shade scores for the benefit of minorities. Variations of norming have been used in other programs as well...