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...Enters Algeria's Killing Fields Deciding it can no longer ignore the carnage on the Mediterranean's south shore that is Algeria's vicious civil war, the European Union squares its shoulders and resolutely sends in -- the fact-finders...
Artful equivocartions are even worse; lynx-eyed sly little rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to exam 40. Then our lynx eyes droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.'s are vicious or ludicrous as such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. "The 20th century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud." (V.G.); "But whether or not this is a good thing or a bad things is difficult to say." (A.E.) Now one such might...
...developing relationships with two acquaintances: a gay painter (Greg Kinnear) who lives in the apartment next door, and a lovely, down-to-earth waitress (Helen Hunt) who serves him lunch every day. Melvin doesn't technically befriend either character. His first words to Simon, the painter, are bigoted and vicious, and all he wants from Carol the waitress is his bacon and eggs done right with as little small talk as possible...
...escape the inevitable "vicious" and/or "imbecilic" outcomes of this process, Cotton advocates a system of elected representatives who will "likely possess the virtues necessary to deliberate well." Sounds like a representative democracy is a great deal: the masses shed the burden of thinking about those weighty issues (about which they have nothing intelligent to say anyway), and let the politicians do all the dirty work. Why would Habermas be so silly to as to argue against such a wonderful system...
Insofar as this is true, whiteness studies has very little to offer academic, not because "white trash" cannot be an interesting area of study, but because, as West told me, "[t]he whole construct of white trash, which is just as arbitrary and can be just as vicious an any other construct, is what it means to be a particular kind of American, but white American." In other words, people who may be called "white trash" are different from other impoverished members of society only because they are white, but they are not more indicative of white culture, or American...