Word: uniform
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While I laud Greene's misguided attempt to honor the Oak and point out the dangers of Sprewell in a Knick uniform, it would be a shame for his readers to come away with a false impression of the man who played with gritty integrity. WILLIAM O. RECKLER...
Clinton's statement strikes me as an outdated model of the "melting pot" in which everyone who enters America can assimilate himself or herself into one, uniform identity. Other models have lately come into vogue: the "salad" model, for instance, in which different people can be tossed together in the same bowl without dissolving into one another. One of my friends likes to think of America as a "chunky soup:" Cultural sharing occurs, but the borders of individuals or groups remain intact, though permeable. Clinton's statement that immigrants should join "the mainstream," however, obscures these more recent (and better...
...Jersey worn by Lou Gehrig the day he gave the "luckiest man" speech in 1939 5 $222,500 - 1909-10 trading card of Honus Wagner (1998 auction) 6 $220,000 - 1938 Lou Gehrig jersey 7 $220,000 - 1942 Jimmie Foxx jersey 8 $176,000 - 1922 Ty Cobb uniform 9 $172,500 - Sammy Sosa's 66th home-run ball 10 $132,000 - 1929 Babe Ruth road uniform...
...agreement does contain exemptions to discuss certain principles. The Ivy League schools, for example, have a uniform policy of no athletic scholarships...
...keep letting you ramble into our microcassette recorder. At 44, Sterling is a married and prosperous father of two, but he wears his hair as long as the boomer teen he remains at heart and sets it off with the jeans and logoed black T that was the cyberpunk uniform way back when. Examining his life as a middle-aged iconoclast, he cackles with glee at his own half-cracked ideas. Which are manifold. His next novel is a "fantasy technothriller" featuring terrorists and assassins. He contributes to Wired and the Australian magazine World Art and spends loving hours maintaining...