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Walker’s speech focused on the Greek word “agape,” which she said translates best to the word “caring.” This principle of unconditional caring served as the core of King’s political philosophy of nonviolence...
Even in other racially divided cities, the club scene is often one area where races mix like rum and Coke. But not in Atlanta, where an unspoken code translates billings such as "techno night" into "white night," while "hip-hop night" means "black night." Some club owners and event promoters...
1) Bury yourself in Harvard Yard and wait for “Archaeology of Harvard Yard” students to find you in twenty years. 2) Load up on a full plate of your dining hall’s Boston Baked Scrod—a surprise in every mouthful could...
The disposables industry and the cloth advocates have battled for decades over which diaper is greener. The Real Diaper Association, an advocacy group founded in 2004, estimates that 27.4 billion disposable diapers are used each year in the U.S. (according to the EPA, that translates into more than 3.4 million...
Nationalism of this sort, of course, is foundational to any imperial project, insofar as Empire presumes the moral correctness of its expansive reach. And in its quest for ‘consensus’ (or better polling figures, as today’s tired political climate would have it), it...