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...balance, the concept to me as an alternative way to pay for college has some attraction," Miller said...
...result, this very real city is too often discussed as if it were a concept rather than a collection of 14.5 million inhabitants. People use the word "L.A." to conjure up any number of two-dimensional, cliched images: L.A. means the glamour and glitz of Hollywood; it means slums teeming with illegal immigrants; it means the hedonism of an appearance-obsessed culture, it means pristine beaches and smogchoked hillsides; it means a postmodern, impersonal city of intertwined freeways and grid-locked streets; it means inner cities blighted by gang warfare and Rodeo Drive...
...long; Lynell George's "City of Specters," a stark essay on death in Black Los Angeles, serves as a sobering and understated counterpoint to Babitz' exuberant piece. "In junior high school we went to more funerals than weddings," George writes. Her memoir is filled with children for whom the "concept of life has never been more ephemeral...there is not the need nor time to pace and fret over a future that may never...
Corporate culture is the operative concept here, I think, Perot wants to run government like a good business, carefully analyzing problems in terms of cost and benefits, consulting experts and controlling costs...
...This concept springs from Robb's Christian Identity theology, an obscure faith shared by many white supremacists. Descended from a shadowy 19th century creed known as Anglo-Israelism, Identity interprets the Bible to mean that white Europeans, and thus their American descendants, are God's true chosen people. Though not endorsed by all believers in this anti-Semitic faith, the use of violence has been linked to the Order, a radical fringe underground group that sought unsuccessfully to overthrow the government in the mid-1980s...