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...comparison to this ideal, Daly's need for her course to consist of only women smacks of an ulterior political motive. Ultimately, it is not that there is something wrong with her "radical" views on feminism; it is that she is using the exclusion of men from classroom as a means to promote these views in an arena that has nothing to do with academics...
...capture the beauty of Whale's movies without distracting the viewer from the matter at hand--Whale and Boone's increasingly complex relationship. Similarly, the flashbacks to the war, and to Whale's wistful memories of "love in the foxholes," are masterfully done. Alas, these all have the ulterior motive of emphasizing the film's already overweighted point: that gods are monsters, monsters are gods, and filmmaking, war and homosexuality are really, in the end, the same thing. As pure cinema, however, stripped of their obligation to make an argument, these scenes are nearly perfect...
Initial cross-racial attraction can be a powerful and enduring motivation for learning about another culture. However, it is important to recognize that such an interest, once sparked, is often sincerely driven by intellectual curiosity rather than an ulterior motive to couple. Unfounded charges of fetishism may frustrate attempts at cross-cultural edification and defeat the very goal originally aspired to by ethnic groups. Alexander T. Nguyen '99, a Crimson editor in Pforzheimer House, is former president of the Asian-American Association...
...Ulterior Motive by Daniel Oran: A former program manager at Microsoft (he invented the Start button for Windows 95), Oran tells the tale of Jonathan Goodman, project manager at "giant Seattle-based computer firm" Megasoft. Goodman stumbles onto a conspiracy after a colleague and Megasoft's billionaire owner are murdered...
Amidst heavy speculation from the media that his retirement was just another clever political maneuver, Paxon has stood firm in his decision to leave office. After a Buffalo reporter questioned whether there was some ulterior motive behind his retirement, Paxon quickly responded that he was done having to justify his life, which earned him a hearty round of applause from the assembled crowd...