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...Michelle's belief in the fragility of success: "Michelle does seem to harbor a sense that things could have so easily gone wrong for her, just as they went wrong for some of the people she grew up with - a sense that if she doesn't work hard to hold it together, everything could still fall apart...
...think I understand why so many people think that economics is a boring subject, but they are wrong. On the contrary, there is hardly anything I know that is as exciting as finding that the great events that move history, the forces that determine the destiny of empires and the fate of kings, can sometimes be explained, predicted, or even controlled by a few symbols on a printed page. We all want power, we all want success, but the ultimate reward is the simple joy of understanding." ("Incidents from My Career...
...forty-nine-year-old Black lesbian feminist socialist mother of two’” to a member of a “Black Nationalist church with a Pan Africanist philosophy.” While a couple of the readings dwell upon the figure of the wrong-headed, young, white man, unable to acknowledge his racial privilege, the pieces encourage not only hackneyed white guilt but male, middle-class, Christian, heterosexual, and able-bodied guilt as well. Likewise, the freshmen were exposed to a poetic call for revolution and thereby were informed of the existence...
...offensive because of the burden it would place on the city’s small businesses. If smoking is banned in these bars, they are likely to go out of business, or at least be forced to undergo significant alterations. In the current economic situation, it seems entirely wrong for the city to deliberately attempt to make life more difficult for small business owners and their employees, especially for such a nebulous aim. The Public Health Commission should let these four establishments and their customers live their lives in peace—or at least, let them breathe whatever...
...door of each.) At one, the woman at the door told him she was "leaning" toward McCain, though I thought she seemed more settled in her decision than that. At another, a teen-aged girl told him: "My dad is a super-strong Republican. You're probably at the wrong house." (He duly marked that down, to save future canvassers the trouble.) Still, the yard signs we saw suggested that this was in fact a neighborhood divided. We discovered that was true when we approached another house on the list and found a father and son raking the front yard...