Word: correctness
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Election committees today struggle to attract a politically correct pool of candidates. Minturn insists, “there are plenty of people who are eager to enjoy a great meal and good conversation.” The difficulty, though, lies in diversifying their membership. “There just are not too many takers,” says one club member, who asked not to be named, “but it’s understandable. If you were black, you wouldn’t want to stick out like a sore thumb. My instinct is that the Somerset would...
...Perspective, Mike A. Hill '01, chair of the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters' Alliance (BGLTSA), is quoted as asking "aren't both marriages and 'domestic partnerships' merely public, social affirmations of the loving relationships between two people? Yes. So why bother with the differing terminology?" Hill is correct that civil unions are not marriage--but they are the closest thing anywhere in the country. And eventually, maybe not tomorrow, maybe not next week, civil unions will lead to gay marriage...
...conclusions may be drawn from this story, and both are correct. The fields of asphalt that ordinarily occupy the center of Paris may be called Elysian, but the name is simply a gloss, or an apology, applied to something that is nothing like Eden. Cities tend to create such places (find the tulips in New York City's Madison Square Garden) as a sort of nostalgic glance at the rural world they supplanted. If the farmers had not carted their bucolic protest to Paris on that day, the citizens there, like people in cities everywhere else, would have continued...
Last week, I called Margaret and asked how her great-grandson was. She said she had seen him earlier in the week, and that he was "just adorable" (correct great-grandmother intonation is impossible in print) and seemed to be growing up happy and healthy. She said she was even a little jealous of the fathers' relationship with the boy. "When he sees me he cries and wants to go with one of the two daddies," she said...
...this a bear market? It may be, and it may be all but over already. With information so quickly and extensively disseminated via the Internet, and with the low cost of trading, rapid market moves have become common. The time it takes to correct market excesses has condensed. So bear markets end as quickly as they start, and soon stock prices are on firm footing again. In fact, Wall Street hasn't witnessed a drawn-out bloodletting since...