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...fend off a few extra would-be suitors. A man named Ramakrishna Gowd went to court insisting he was married to the Gandhi daughter, but the judge recommended he be incarcerated and seek psychiatric help. And on the day of the happy but heavily guarded nuptials, Ms. Gandhi--once thought to be a likely heir to the family's political legacy--was surprised by a 46-year-old schoolteacher who turned up claiming he was the prospective groom. He was arrested on the spot...
...University Band. I feel Mr. McEvoy couldn't have been more on target with his criticism. After the Beanpot, I considered writing an editorial, speaking to the same issue, but refrained for fear that this is still a serious issue not resolved by the flimsy excuses presented by Ms. Bohm and Mr. Courson...
...replying to register my disappointment with the inaccuracy of Rachel Barenbaum's op-ed on Ebonics. I do not pretend to speak for supporters of Ebonics, I am only writing as one supporter of Ebonics. With few exceptions, Ms. Barenbaum's entire analysis is completely incorrect. First, her worry that Ebonics will remove social fluidity and drive races and classes further apart is groundless. She seems to think that proponents of Ebonics want it to be taught to African-American students in classrooms across the country. On the contrary, Ebonics, as it currently stands, is going to be taught...
...further confounded by Ms. Barenbaum's fears that Ebonics is going to create "a basic communication problem" between poor African-Americans and the rest of the country. She amazingly overlooks the reality that America is already divided by race, as evidenced by the unanimous support of the O.J. verdict among poor blacks, and the similarly unanimous disappointment among whites. Even if Ebonics operates as a divisive agent, as Ms. Barenbaum suspects, it will be reinforcing a division which already exists, not creating one. Perhaps the most ridiculous contention in the article is that our nation's print media automatically creates...
...final point is a bit of an ironic one. Ms. Barenbaum spends too much of her entire piece talking about obscure theories, and forgets some fundamental rules about standard English grammar. She begins the last paragraph of her piece by arguing that Ebonics is going to create a division between those who speak it and "those who speaks, reads," and write standard English. Earlier she argues that, because of all this debate, "what is being established is binary opposition, is difference." These grammatically incorrect sentences, in an edited op-ed piece, should remind some of us that the basic question...