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...Chinese’ are whole homogenous black-box categories—that you are either Chinese or Muslim—is just not reality.” Lipman, also a history professor at Mount Holyoke, said he was careful to distinguish culture, ethnicity, and religion in his speech. Different aspects of a person’s identity can be reconciled in many different ways, he added. “You carry your ethnicity on your ID card,” he said. “You carry your religion in your heart.” Lipman also touched...
Haven delivered an acceptance speech focused on the imperative to serve, citing examples from Mother Theresa and Frederick Douglass...
...Obama’s speech quickly converted thousands in the crowd, and presumably thousands of others who watched or listened to broadcasts, into his latest believers. He has become a global force, reassuring for the future while skillfully appealing to the past. Famed former Czech President Vaclav Havel, who met with Obama afterward, warned him of the risks of becoming so popular as to create impossible expectations. Yet, for now, Obama has exceeded the expectations of yet another foreign nation, leaving even President Vaclav Klaus somewhat overwhelmed in his wake. Klaus told the media the speech...
...whom they will be working. But the world should no longer be surprised by Obama’s grace and dignity or his constant, effortless self-awareness. Obama could walk into almost any room of strangers and produce that sort of result. Perhaps the most important message of his speech was this: that the United States is back as a robust political force, and the dynamism of its leader cannot be ignored...
...movie on campus is to ban it? When a state senator threatened to strip funding from the University of Maryland over its plans to show a XXX-rated film in the student center, school officials nixed the event. But fired-up students responded on Monday by holding a free-speech demonstration that drew media coverage from as far away as Thailand and Australia...