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...Jiangxia never aspired to be an activist. Studious and soft-spoken, she preferred math textbooks to politics. While her contemporaries marched on Tiananmen Square in 1989, Hu remained at home in central China cramming for college entrance exams. The work paid off. She earned a spot at Shanghai's prestigious Jiaotong University and later a job as a software programmer at one of China's most successful companies in the eastern lakefront city of Hangzhou. It was there that Wang Youcai, a lanky fellow programmer, first asked her for a date. She turned him down. He'd spent four years...
...African Americans on the whole are suffering from a "cult of anti-intellectualism," as John McWhorter, a black professor at the University of California, Berkeley, claims in his recent book, Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America. Despite all the fuss about some black teenagers' disparaging their more studious peers for "acting white," most of us, regardless of age or where we stand on the economic ladder, value high achievement as much as anyone. Our problem is not cultural. It's political and psychological. Too many of us have forgotten that we are still engaged in a struggle...
...African Americans on the whole are suffering from a "cult of anti-intellectualism," as John McWhorter, a black professor at the University of California, Berkeley, claims in his recent book, Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America. Despite all the fuss about some black teenagers' disparaging their more studious peers for "acting white," most of us, regardless of age or where we stand on the economic ladder, value high achievement as much as anyone. Our problem is not cultural. It's political and psychological. Too many of us have forgotten that we are still engaged in a struggle...
Edmondson said that such policies do not properly accommodate international students with homes far away, financially burdened pupils who cannot afford travel expenses, or the studious who prefer to productively pass the vacation...
...Robert Mapplethorpe, but without the whips and chains, which means the Mapplethorpe of laser-cut male torsos and tulips that loom before you like stage-lit pachyderms. These pictures were not collected by the inebriated stage floozy we used to know and love. They bear the mark of the studious Sir Elton John, a man buying things in the cold light of the morning after. Even the sex here is stately. Don't look for anything hairy or louche. It's mostly neatly muscled male torsos by Horst, Mapplethorpe or Herb Ritts. The models have abs more tightly organized than...