Word: skips
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...irony is that Bush styled himself as a reformer, threatening to kill some of the Pentagon's costly "legacy" programs. In a September 1999 speech, he said the military should take advantage of the cold war's end "to skip a generation of technology" and move on to futuristic weapons without necessarily buying all those in development. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld came in pledging to remake the military. "The U.S. defense establishment must be transformed to address our new circumstance," he said as he took the job for a second time. Pentagon corridors were buzzing last summer about how Rumsfeld...
...Congress never read her stuff. There is an assumption, perhaps, that black excellence is exceptional or somehow out of place or outside the norm. There is that notion that black excellence is not supposed to be too widespread. I think that when we position people like Cornel West and Skip Gates as the sort of paradigmatic examples of black excellence things like this unleash the possibility for people to question black excellence and to talk shit about black excellence in a way that is really deeply racist...
...bomb threat to public intellectuals. He’s someone who likes going out and spreading controversial things, like his comment on September 11th. Inevitably, he does this much more than anyone else in the Af-Am department. I think if this had been an issue between Skip Gates and Larry Summers you would have had fewer people at the Alumni Association saying, “Way to go, Summers.” I mean, obviously, you would have had some who are going to be racist and frame it as such, but I mean, Cornel West...
...know, because one of his head TFs for the three major courses that he teaches is one of my closest friends, is that he has not missed a class since he’s been here. In fact, on September 11th, Cornel was in Times Square. He apparently called Skip Gates and said, “I’m not going to be able to get out of Manhattan because no one is getting out of Manhattan, and I’m not going to be back for my 11 o’clock lecture tomorrow...
...more on the modes of inquiry rather than the people who are doing the inquiring. I think the first priority should be about method and the kinds of things we are studying. The fact that everyone outside of Harvard is talking about Cornel West and Larry Summers and whether Skip Gates and Kwame Appiah are going to go with Cornel and not about what Higginbotham or Tommie Shelby is doing or about Jamaica Kincaid is emblematic of a larger misfocus...