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Even so, these books address major concerns and trace them over long periods, and thus warrant the attention of the interested specialist and the passionate amateur alike...
Take figure skating. It used to be an arcane discipline that grew out of skating on frozen ponds and swamps, where the ice was black and people could trace their names -- or grapevines or Maltese crosses -- on a winter evening. Those innocent exercises gradually evolved into amateur competitions in which painfully exacting school figures counted for much of a skater's score, the rest being determined by the more spectacular free skating...
Harvard's new conservative movement does not trace its roots to the old Establishment-type conservatism which characterized the campus in the early part of the century, say some conservative student group members...
...stage, the only trace that remainedof Harvard's new filmmaker/professor was a pieceof gum.SPIKE LEE addresses the news media after hisFriday lecture...
Finding both identity and difference (the human and its other) at once is what Derrida has traditionally called "the trace," but here calls "the cinder." The entire allusion is lost...