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...Kinsey also takes sex into a broader sociological context by dramatizing the fatal flaw of Kinsey’s research and personal sex life. Kinsey was the first person to ever study sex objectively, an inherently flawed occupation because “sex [is] a factory of emotion,” says Condon. This was an “inconvenient thought for [Kinsey] because he was trying to separate sex and study it completely from a scientific perspective...
...does this matter? Consider, for example, Gruhl's question about the color of the Web. WebFountain helped illustrate how culture, language and context all come into play on the Internet: in the U.S. and Europe, most websites are blue; Southeast Asian sites are typically red or orange. For companies planning on selling products in, say, India or China, developing a lime-hued Web presence may not be the smartest investment...
...Vietnamese colonial capital from guerrilla insurgents may be somewhat unfortunate, however. Although Hue has entered Marine lore as an example of a triumph of urban warfare, made more vivid by its recreation in Stanley Kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket," a favorite movie on Marine bases, the wider context of Hue may give pause for thought - or even alarm. To be sure, the enemy the Marines are facing in the fierce fighting for Fallujah that began overnight Monday may be not dissimilar from the once they encountered at Hue. Both are fiercely determined guerrilla fighters motivated by a combination of nationalism...
...West addresses the Summers dispute within the larger context of the obligation of intellectuals and professors to go beyond the ivory tower and engage with the democratic community as a whole. His critique of Summers is framed within a larger criticism of “the technocratic management culture on the rise in our universities today [that] offers few…democratic rewards...
...brutality is somehow hardwired into Cambodian society?is not scholarly enough to be convincing. He makes his case largely by an unblinking focus on horror: children decapitated, lynch mobs eating their victims' fried livers, and so on. This attempt to place Pol Pot's wickedness in a wider psychohistorical context feels misguided rather than malicious, although Cambodian readers might feel differently...