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Mistreated as they are, conservatives were confident that they could make a strong case for obtaining a diversity seat, and they applied. The liberals who dominate the student government (as well as the campus) were thrust into the uncomfortable position of having to eat their own words. Apparently it wasn’t too difficult; the senate denied the conservatives a diversity seat but recognized senators for Latino, Asian, gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender and international students. During the Senate’s debate, senators berated conservative speakers for their audacity. Some justified their stance by saying that one’s political ideology...
...result, to Chomsky, was “totally predictable.” He noted that divestment “is the only thing that’s talked about. Not the main thrust. Nobody talks about the Geneva Conventions, nobody talks about any of the issues that matter...
When I asked him about this via e-mail, Chomsky wrote: “The reasons are well understood by anyone who is involved in human rights and related activities: one signs petitions when one agrees with their main thrust and recognizes their human significance. No one who signs a petition is expected to approve of every word, even of large parts, if the main thrust is appropriate and sufficiently important. That’s second nature to human rights activists...
...cards out of Sweet ’n Low packages and probed everyone sitting within talking radius whether they considered themselves, way deep down inside, to be “giving” people. In a pique of social energy, Kuo, at one point in the evening, spontaneously thrust herself backwards and would have toppled to the floor while still in her chair were it not for the quick reaction time of an FM chaperone. “I’m so clumsy,” exclaimed a now-diagonal Kuo, her chair returning slowly to the stationary position...
...live the rest of my life like this, but for now I have to justify any pleasurable time that I have. But I do have dreams." Those dreams will have to wait, because selling Up! will keep her performing on the road for a few years and thrust her right back into the swirl of another dream: being the world's biggest pop singer. Just whose dream that is, only Shania Twain knows for sure...