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...Students shun the pricey drink of choice of most yuppies: Evian. "Drinking Evian means that you know you're being health conscious, and you want other people to know it too," says Tene A. Cage...
...Many Asian-Americans believe that as long as they work hard and act quietly [and] inoffensively, white America won't notice or care that they're of Asian background. Consequently, they shun AAA," he added...
...Whitehead. "No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives," Whitehead said in January, 1944, speaking about the overemphasis placed on the economic motive in humankind. If tomorrow's leaders, and tomorrow's voters, readily shun idealism for pragmatism--if politics is no longer seen as the art of the possible--what kind of a future can we expect...
Reasons to Move There: Depot Plaza, where Amish shoppers park their horses and buggies, is a downtown meeting place and festival site. Nice mix of old and new: John's Butcher Shop uses 500 meat lockers to store food for the Amish, who shun electricity at home; sports agent Mark Simpson, who lives here, shows his clients the money via fax or modem...
Many gay activists, and probably many religious activists, will be put off by a message of conciliation. In a country where politicians shun bipartisanship, ordinary people settle disputes with lawsuits and college campuses are marked by hyper-sensitivity on all sides, understanding is hardly in vogue. But without it, any victory, for any group, will surely be a bitter one. As a friend of mine says, "Nothing grows in scorched earth...