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Well, I'm frankly heartened by the emerging disapproval of that demographic.
2) The trial itself has already tamed Microsoft and heartened its competitors.
I hope so, although I was not heartened by an article I read this morning in the Los Angeles Times about the fact that despite numerous hate crimes laws on the books, few are being implemented by police, who appear to decline to report obvious hate crimes as such.
Conservatives are heartened, though a few winced at his boast that Republican ideas are carrying the day--in Mongolia.
But I would think that most black-studies scholars are only partly heartened by this; for this rather triumphalist book (and Gates is important in black studies, in part, for the promotion of a triumphalist view of black history and black culture--globally speaking--which is why he is hated by Afrocentrists who take a somewhat different view of the long-term meaning of "the coming of the white man") is nothing less than the middlebrow arrival of black studies in American culture.