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...Palestinians; in a word imperial domination in its purest form.” In Higonnet’s bad America “pluralism is a mask for special interests, a Christian America (Ashcroft), bursting with revolvers (Cheney), arrogant (Rumsfeld), imperial (William Kristol), racist (Trent Lott), opportunist (Condi Rice), partisan (Karl Rove), the America of spying and denunciation (Poindexter).” Europe, he says, “sooner or later, will have to separate itself from the new America...
...would also like to know what Higonnet meant when he called National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice “opportunistic.” I want to be generous, yet I can’t help but think that Higonnet meant to say a black woman can not occupy a key position of power in a Republican administration without betraying her blackness. I could be wrong, but I think he owes it to his students to explain what he meant and why a Harvard professor left his comments open to such an obvious racialist interpretation...
Junior pitcher and first baseman Marc Hordon will miss the season with a torn labrum, the latest and most dramatic setback in what has been a brilliant but injury-plagued career. Hordon turned in a gritty performance in the first game of the 2002 NCAA Regional against Rice weeks after spraining the same shoulder and missed two weeks earlier in the season with a broken left hand. He also injured his other labrum as a freshman...
...attempted steal. Hordon didn’t even get the base—the attempt happened during a timeout—and he didn’t pitch again until NCAAs. There, a still-recovering Hordon relied heavily on a 56-mph eephus pitch that briefly stymied Rice before the Owls broke through against the big righty...
...were given sodden rice and plain dhal to eat. Every few hours I would be woken up and pulled from the cell to answer questions. The same high-ranking officer who brandished his pistol would force me to sit on the floor with my legs extended so he could thrash my left kneecap with his baton. The police wanted a full accounting of the time I spent with the Channel 4 crew: the places we went, the sources we met. I had done nothing to be ashamed of, so I told them everything I knew...