The major victory of professors of literature in the last half-century — the Great March from the New Criticism through structuralism, deconstruction, Foucauldianism, and multiculturalism — has been the invention and codification of a professionalized study of literature. We've made ourselves into a priestly caste: To understand literature, we tell students, you have to come to us. Yet professionalization is a pyrrhic victory: We've won the battle but lost the war. We've tur

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Summary: The Pentagon has to do more than modernize its conventional forces; it must also focus on today's unconventional conflicts -- and tomorrow's.

The defining principle of the Pentagon's new National Defense Strategy is balance. The United States cannot expect to eliminate national security risks through higher defense budgets, to do everything and buy everything. The Department of Defense must set priorities and

When my mother arrived in England as a refugee from Nazi Germany, shortly before the outbreak of World War II, she found the people admirable, though not without the defects that corresponded to their virtues. By the time she died, two-thirds of a century later, she found them rude, dishonest, and charmless. They did not seem to her, moreover, to have any virtues to compensate for their unpleasant qualities. I occasionally asked her to think of some, but she cou

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331.award vt.授予，判给 n.奖品，奖金
332.aware a.意识到
333.column n.柱，圆柱，栏，专栏
334.comedy n.喜剧
335.dumb a.哑的；沉默的
336.dump vt.倾斜，倾倒
337.deaf a.聋的，不愿听的
338.decorate vt.装饰，装潢
339.principal a.最重要的，n.负责人，校长
340.principle n.原则，原理
341.prior a.优先的，在前的
342.priority n.优点，重点
343.prohibit vt.禁止，不准
344.remarkable a.值得注意的，异常的，非凡的
345.remedy n./vt.补救，医治，治疗

By Marie Arana
Sunday, November 30, 2008; B01

He is also half white.

Unless the one-drop rule still applies, our president-elect is not black.

We call him that -- he calls himself that -- because we use dated language and logic. After more than 300 years and much difficult history, we hew to the old racist rule: Part-black is all black. Fifty percent equals a hundred.

284.prominent a.突出的
285.substance n.物质，实质
286.substantial a.可观的，牢固的，实质的
287.prompt vt.促使；a.敏捷的，及时的
288.vivid a.生动的
289.vocabulary n.词汇，词汇表
290.venture n.风险投资，风险项目 v.冒险；敢于
291.version n.版本，译本；说法
292.waist n.腰部
293.weld v./n. 焊接
294.yawn vi.打哈欠
295.yield vi.(to)屈服于，让出，放弃 n.产量
296.zone n.地区，策略
297.strategy n.战略，策略
298.strategic a.战略的，关键的