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Before I applied to college, I don’t recall ever being asked to self-identify as a member of an ethnic or racial group. So when I was confronted with the question on my Harvard application, I panicked. Would my answer shape my chances with the admissions office? Might I be condemned as “just another bright white kid?” Would I finally be made to pay for a lifetime of privilege and luxury? I had long been acquainted with the concept of “affirmative action,” but now here...
...somebody done peeped dere hole card," said the Kingfish. "The Clinton Administration said no way dey would fund a bilingual Ebonics program, and Maya Angelou and Jesse Jackson got all bent out of shape too. So the school board issued a statement sayin' dey wasn't settin' up a bilingual program, jist trying to he'p the kids learn standard English. But den dey puts in a paragirraffe dat convinced me dat the school board needs some he'p with its own English." He read, "'In the clause African Language Systems are genetically based and not a dialect of English...
...fetus has 100 billion neurons at its disposal. While most devote their 100 billion to such mundane pursuits as hearing or kicking, the title hero in Carlos Fuentes’ novel “Christopher Unborn” spins 500-plus pages of giddy prose, interspersed with song lyrics, shape poems, plays, and political ads. Sixteen years after “Christopher”’s first edition in English, the non-profit Dalkey Archive Press gives this loud and incorrigible work by Mexico’s most famous novelist a much-deserved rebirth in American bookstores...
...another idea, favored by Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo., would open the door even wider. By his definition, any object massive enough for gravity to squeeze into a spherical shape is a planet--unless the object orbits a bigger planet, of course. Otherwise, dozens of moons would have to be reclassified as planets. "Defining planets by size is purely arbitrary," agrees Marsden, who likes Stern's idea. "The Pluto-crats want to cut things off there, but it's absurd to say that an object 2,000 km across is a planet...
...Craig said. “They’re definitely our biggest rival in the Ivy League, and if we could beat them to start this last stretch of the season, I think we’d be on our way.” Beating the Bears could help shape the Crimson’s season long after the final whistle is blown at Ohiri Field tomorrow afternoon. Last year’s 1-0 last-second triumph served as a bit of a spark for the team, and it would love to do it again...