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According to Early, who studied several articles surrounding the controversy and McNabb’s reaction to it, the incident exemplified the ability of sports to reveal social and cultural context in America...
...permanent guests of the Board occupy positions well-suited to understand a student’s petition in light of the College’s standards and rules.” Who is better suited to help them understand student petitions than students themselves? Student perspectives can provide the context that even senior tutors and freshman deans—often separated from an undergraduate perspective by more than a decade—may not always understand...
...audience, he said, wasn’t as familiar with the context of the Kennedy presidency as those who lived...
That said, moving closer to your children certainly lets you establish a new relationship with them in a different context. Take Harold Nussbaum, 54, who wanted to know his daughter Fanita better. She was 7 when Harold and her mother divorced, and although he did his best to keep in touch, he felt he had missed out on big pieces of her life. So in 1998 he and his wife Gloria, 52, moved from their longtime home in Akron, Pa., to Beaverton, Ore. Now they live seven miles from Fanita, her husband and her three children. "We concentrate on simple...
...Beijing's Tsinghua University, who advises the Chinese leadership on foreign affairs. "[Former President] Jiang Zemin tended to focus more on symbolic victories." Indeed, on a slew of issues ranging from Taiwan to Iraq, China is engaging in constructive policies that finally place the nation within a global context?not outside of it. "Up until a few years ago, China was unsatisfied with the international system and challenged it," says a senior research fellow at the National Institute for Defense Studies in Tokyo. "However, nowadays it's existing within the international system and behaving as a responsible state...