Word: singularizing
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...very salient daily reminder of the fact that there's no such thing as black and white, that everything we do is a kind of mixing up. Everything we do is about contradictions, really." Those contradictions, he thinks, define the world much more honestly than the singular truths he had once searched for. "You realize that things don't have to make sense," he explains, in a way that does. The son of a Ghanaian diplomat dispatched to London's High Commission by the first post-independence government, which was unceremoniously displaced by a coup in 1966, Eshun was born...
...black Africa as sources of vicious conflict, are the offspring of the same parents as racism. Homo sapiens, the "wise man," is not yet truly wise. Majority-ruled South Africa, despite remnants of the racist era, has enjoyed remarkable stability and a robust economy, thanks largely to the singular wisdom of the African National Congress (anc) under the leadership of Nelson Mandela. The anc did not go after revenge following the free elections in 1994 but instead built on the positive attributes from the apartheid era, such as a strong economy. Michael E. Aken'Ova Ibadan, Nigeria Getting beyond race...
...legal term, but why not write that the incident is likely to have been a hate crime, or that it yet has to be decided whether it was a hate crime, rather than reducing the hateful nature of the assault to the assaulted student’s singular perception...
...converge” is an inadequate, and indeed somewhat meaningless, descriptor for this rich story. Are the factors that participate in the triple convergence mutually reinforcing? Is the relationship among them linear and causal? How does the fall of the Berlin Wall, a singular historical event in 1989, “converge” with open-sourcing...
Lest students should fear a night of force-fed feminism, Stanchik assures that “Ostara” aims not to propagate a singular empowerment agenda or single-sex participation. Rather, it simply seeks to encourage broad participation in recognizing the importance of women in the arts. To that end, students Alexa L. M. von Tobel ’06 and Tom P. Lowe ’05 will co-emcee the program...