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...would get at their underlying problems. It seemed it would always have something to do with skin color, but they never would want to talk about that. That spurred me to start doing a lot of reading. And the reading informed me about something I already knew about, sort of at a subconscious level. It's an experience with skin color that most African-Americans are aware of, but it's so buried and so taboo that unless you read about it, or it's mentioned, some of us don't even know that it still exists...
...powerless in the face of a potent mythology.) Obama is the precise opposite of Mountain Man Todd Palin: an entirely urban creature. He lives within the hilarious conundrum of being both too "cosmopolitan" and intellectual for Republican tastes - at least as Rudy Giuliani described it - while also being the sort of fellow suspected of getting ahead by affirmative action...
...repugnant, but its unraveling would raise questions the North's neighbors would much rather postpone." Neither China nor South Korea want to see a chaotic transition, in part because that might mean tens of thousands of refugees pouring across their borders, or, in the worst case, some sort of civil war in the WMD-laden North that might require U.S. intervention. That, indeed, is Beijing's absolute worst-case scenario...
...improvements. Harvard Allston Task Force Chair Ray Mellone said the University’s challenges were compounded by the fact that they must keep in mind both the development of a neighborhood as well as the expansion of a campus. “Harvard has to see with a sort of double vision,” he said. “This is a brand new kind of planning challenge that has not been done in the past, but I am optimistic that they can figure out the issues.” Although the University plans to submit the master...
...tenure as state senator and then U.S. senator for Illinois can only hurt the Republican Party. Her speech weakly hid this fact, instead comparing her tenure as mayor to his pre-Harvard Law School service as community organizer. “I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a ‘community organizer,’ except that you have actual responsibilities,” she quipped...