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...organizing principle of the African mind, defining the pre-eminence of the interests of the community over the individual, the duties and responsibilities the individual owes the community, the obligation of the individual to share what he has with the community. It is both blessing and curse, the root of Africa's strong families and social customs and the root cause of its debilitating corruption and crime. Yet as the continent embraces Western ways, its people do not want to lose everything African. What we need to encourage--what Africa needs to make for itself--is lives and systems that...
Impressively, the play retains its stylish, literary sense of humor even in its intense last scene. "Life's too short for the New Yorker," Ruth quips truthfully to before an outburst of anger. Ruth and Lisa's jokes, like their writing, are at the root of their intimate relationship...
...never root for one team over another because I generally don't care who wins. But I admit I do feel vindicated by the Princeton University basketball team's 26-and-1 record and its rank of No. 8 in the country. I confess I wouldn't be all that disappointed if the team wins a couple of games in the NCAA championships that start this week. But only because it might teach a lesson to the guys I play pickup basketball with on Tuesday nights...
...Hall's close-minded and stubborn nature was also the root of her finer qualities, a fact which comes through nowhere more clearly than in the matter of The Well of Loneliness. A newly best-selling and award-winning writer, Hall put her career at risk and her personal life on public view in order to consciously write a book that reach out to and to try to help win acceptance for "my people...
...Giuliani-style government as a sign that the age of identity politics is over. Jim Sleeper, for instance, writes in Newsday, that "Giuliani's victory is part of a national political realignment based on an emerging consensus: Liberal Democrats' `Rainbow' racial and sexual identity politics and their obsession with `root cause' explanations for social decay made them thunderously wrong about how to fight crime, stimulate employment, provide welfare, and improve public education...