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Unfortunately for Kinyanjui, few of his fellow Africans see it that way. Homosexuality is socially and officially shunned in Africa. With the exception of South Africa, whose constitution bans discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, most countries treat homosexuality as illegal and punish its practice with lengthy prison sentences...
So far, Greenspan has lived up to his image as the maestro of monetary policy--and his remarks last week to the Senate Budget Committee at first seemed no exception. In a well-prepared statement, he reported on the current state of the economy and presented his conclusions on how...
Barnett and Ajilore comprise one of the smallest freshman classes in years, and their impact will in large part rely upon the health of the other Harvard players. This year's squad, with the exception of the freshmen and the graduation of Vedica Jain '00, is essentially last year's...
Left brain, right brain: Gramsci and Tocqueville represent radically different ways of thinking about America. "Like Marx," Fonte writes, "[Gramsci] argued that all societies in human history have been divided into two basic groups: the privileged and the marginalized, the oppressor and the oppressed, the dominant and the subordinate." Europe...
The Tocquevillians, on the other hand, say America is an exception. They "take Alexis de Tocqueville's essentially empirical description of American exceptionalism and celebrate the traits of this exceptionalism as normative values to be embraced." In the contemporary Tocquevillians' view, says Fonte, "Americans today, just as in Tocqueville's...