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...called "review" of Patterson's course was not just racially "insensitive." It was blatantly and grossly racist. To consider it potentially humorous to make a mockery of ethnic characteristics is not mere insensitivity; it is a familiar and disgusting element of real racism. Patterson and the rest of the Harvard community deserve something better than the weak and weasel-worded offerings that you have provided...
Despite the lack of sherry, Greene says there's still some element of formality to the gatherings. "People do dress up, more so than at other universities...
Finding any kind of neutrino is a neat trick. The Baksan detector consists of four tanks filled with 30 tons of the element gallium, which liquefies at about room temperature. If a solar neutrino of the right energy interacts with the material in the tanks, a feat of atomic alchemy will transmute some of the gallium into germanium, another metallic element...
...year of amazing fast-forward history, the later stages of American thinking about the gulf crisis have been swift in arriving. Across the U.S. the element of time began to take on profound importance. The window of $ popular support for the American mission in the gulf may prove to be narrow. Says Sheldon Kamenicki, a political scientist at the University of Southern California: "As recently as the late '60s, President Bush might have had a couple of years in which to operate. Now he has only a couple or three months...
...novel is the author's standby, the diary of a bemused old man who has survived civilization's downfall. Perhaps because of this resemblance to his other books, or simply because the freight of anger and disgust is so heavy it upsets the novel's balance, the element of Hocus Pocus that is storytelling seems perfunctory. Eugene Debs Hartke is the diarist, a gung-ho U.S. Army officer during the Vietnam War; then a professor of science at Tarkington, a college for dyslectics in New York State; then briefly the warden of a prison for blacks into which the college...