Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...President, but I also believe that trying to fit parts into a whole makes each component smaller, less interesting and inauthentic. There is a life of parts, as valid as the life of the whole. Simply noting is often enough. What right have I to give the universe a shape other than the one in which it presents itself without comment? There: Madeleine Albright is Jewish. There: Ecuador's President sings A Madman in Love to win the hearts of his people. The world steps forward as Dennis Rodman more often than as Grant Hill, bad as it wants...
These stories of our lives do shape us and they do make the bonds that we may share with people of similar backgrounds that much stronger. But these cannot be the only ties that bind...
...this context and with this set of psychological and experiential data that blacks evaluate their condition in America. In much the same way, the traumatic legacy of the Russian pogrom and the Nazi Holocaust shape the manner in which Jews view themselves in America and the rest of the world...
Realpolitikers will grumble: too bad she doesn't have Marshall's billions of dollars to rearrange the world. Yet Albright is already off to prove that her outlook can shape the day-to-day business of U.S. diplomacy. During the trip she will begin next week to nine key powers in Europe and Asia, she plans to coax the world's major players into working "together to develop the international system as we're going into the 21st century." That's what another of her predecessors, George Shultz, once adroitly called "gardening"--the diplomacy of nurturing foreign relationships so they...
...danker parts of the psyche. Cose quotes anthropologist Ashley Montagu, who more than 50 years ago wrote, "'Race' is the witchcraft of our time. The means by which we exorcise demons." Modern biology takes a similar though less dramatic view. At the cellular level, characteristics such as head shape or skin pigmentation are considered superficial variations in the species. To a geneticist, color-coding Homo sapiens looks more like a cultural than a scientific imperative...