Word: avoidable
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Ideally, both Asians and non-Asians could react to "The Misanthropic Mr. Chu" without regard to the racial identity of its characters. Judging from the widespread negative reactions of Harvard's ethnic organizations to the strip, however, such a benign reading is unlikely. In general, political correctness exists to avoid offending minorities. The media must be made aware of the damage it inflicts when it eschews political correctness and indiscriminately links negative qualities to race...
...weekdays; check local listings). In fact, well aware that parents are part of the kiddie TV audience whether they like it or not, PBS has created a welcome thing in the age of Teletubbies and Barney--a fun educational show for kids with enough sops for adults to avoid inspiring a wave of vasectomies and tubal ligations...
Your article refers to Stephen King's e-book saying, "His experiment proved a point: the middleman is endangered...And if you're already a star, you can avoid the middleman by using the Net to keep most of the money yourself." King used every available middleman to publish this novella in e-book format. He used an agent, a publisher, e-book distributors and several online bookstores. He didn't publish or distribute the book himself, nor did he sell it himself through his own website. Maybe the middlemen cut themselves out profitwise to offer the e-novella...
...just in time to avoid being tarred as the Nike of corner cafes, Starbucks, the nation's largest gourmet-coffee company, caved last Friday, agreeing to launch a line of Fair Trade-Certified beans. The politically correct coffee is grown on small farm cooperatives rather than large plantations. It sells for a minimum of $1.26 per lb.--which goes directly to the farmers rather than the middlemen, who often pay growers less than 50[cents] per lb. The increase means that the farmers, who hand-pluck their beans and carry them down the mountain in 100-lb. sacks, can afford...
...hard to avoid conjuring in the mind alternate Elians, as if they were twins separated by different fates, one of them gone to grow up (fatherless) in America and the other returned to Cuba--and to all that may mean...