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Chinese students have criticized Bush for not taking a harder line with the Beijing government after its bloody crackdown on the pro-democracy movement last year. They point to recent visits to China by National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft and the cancellation of sanctions as evidence that the administration is willing to forget China's human rights violations...
League-leading Colgate is ahead of the pack by only one point, but the standings can be deceptive. While Harvard has 13 points in 12 games and the Tigers, Saints and Golden Knights have the same number in 11 efforts, Colgate has amassed its 14 points in only eight ECAC outings--which gives the Red Raiders a big head start heading into the second stretch...
Second Shift also falters when Hochschild's personal prejudices color her descriptions of the couples she observes. She tends to ascribe nefarious subconscious motives to minor actions that aren't necessary to prove her overall point. For example, when a husband in the study made a joke about housework, she accuses him of denying the problems in his home. (In fact, he did deny them, but not because of the joke.) At worst, Hochschild chastises a father as a bad parent for refusing to do a "camel walk" with his baby...
Issues of class remain peripheral to Hochschild's basic point that the second shift causes unhappiness, regardless of whether the couples perceive the second shift as a problem. And Hochschild makes this point convincingly through the well-documented and precisely explained observations of individual families...
Despite the final exciting rally, the Crimson really lost the game in the last three minutes of the first half, with Dartmouth All-Ivy candidates Walter Palmer and Blackwell sitting on the bench in foul trouble and the Big Green leading by one point...