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...There’s a downside to this surfeit of temerity, however. When minority groups have their religious and cultural identities sidelined by policies geared at preserving laïcité, the result can be paradoxical; a retreat into the very ethnic and religious communities that French politicians so fear. Defenders of the headscarf ban are quick to point to private parochial schools as alternatives for those pupils who are unable to comply for religious reasons. But marginalizing into separate schools the very individuals to whom the Republic ought to reach out the most might not be such a good...
...Today, Democrats find themselves in an unusual situation, with a surfeit of faith-friendly front runners. If they want to court and keep new religious voters, however, this time the conversion will have to be party-wide...
...approve its extermination,” read The Crimson. The new UC, however, was created specifically to address areas where the old body had been lacking. It had official recognition, it had funding, it had the responsibility to disperse funds, and—with Fainsod’s old surfeit of committees having been reconstituted, cut down, or eliminated—it was meant to be efficient...
...More likely, Chai's book suffers from a surfeit of coming-of-age memoirs by Asian Americans, as well as a blessed obsolescence: China's diaspora has largely fared well in the U.S. since Chai was a girl. Her father even tells her, "There's no such thing as racism against Chinese. You just don't know how to get along with people...
...swimming phenoms—but both college football and college basketball have somewhat resisted the urge to uncover the Fountain of Youth.Globally, the best soccer players are hunted out well before they are old enough to worry about going to college. Brazil provides the best example, with its surfeit of young talent that crops up every four years, but even England reveals its newly minted teenage prodigy at every World Cup.The world’s best swimmers, gymnasts, runners, and baseball players almost all join the professional ranks as adolescents.By the time they’re 20, many of them...