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With the end of the cold war, that threshold question was no longer vital. Absent a direct threat to American national security, foreign policy in general disappeared from U.S. political discourse. The past three presidential campaigns--1992, 1996 and 2000--may well have been the most devoid of foreign-policy discussion of any during the 20th century. It stood to reason. If the homeland was secure, if there was no deadly adversary stalking us, who cared what was going on out there...
...It’s the summer between my junior and senior years [of high school],” Coughlin describes. When he stepped up to shake the President’s hand, all he could think was, “This is the threshold: My life is before me now, what am I going to do with it? I have big dreams; I want to serve the world...
...Close Encounter,? skeleton fingers grab Samo Hung?s butt; skeleton teeth snack on his ample flesh. (It?s a nightmare, the kind the ITMFG films rarely wake up from.) You?ll need a high threshold of pain for roughhouse and Cantonese insult comedy, for fall-on-their-asses reactions that Shemp Howard would have rejected as overly broad, and for supporting players with cross-eyes and a huge, hairy wart (a talisman of sorts, don?t ask me why, for martial arts movies of the period). But along with some cunning, made-in-the-basement special effects, ?CESK? includes...
...takes a while to become more than your primary distinguishing features, and to someone who doesn’t know a lot of blacks/Asians/whoever, well, being a black/Asian/whoever may well be your primary distinguishing feature. And if someone else happens to share that feature, tragicomic mishaps ensue until your threshold of distinction catches up to your surroundings...
...Noted sketchball Justin N. Blatt ’04 met someone whose skankiness so far exceeded his own that Blatt’s “sketch threshold,” which has been theorized but was never thought to actually exist, was reached. In Blatt’s words, “This girl I’ve talked to for maybe 10 minutes over the course of two years came up to me and was like, ‘I want to hook up.’ And I’m like, ‘Word...