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...away from surgery. He adamantly insisted to Regan that the Senate majority leader, and the public, be disabused of the notion that the White House was caving in. The chief of staff later called Dole to express the President's unhappiness with what Regan described as the Senator's "unkind remark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ronald Reagan: Anxiety over an Ailing President | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

...road with a determined overtime victory over Colgate and notched two more wins in the next twelve days over Lehigh and Long Island. The Saturn Shootout holiday tournament in Charleston, Harvard’s seventh and eighth games away from the friendly confines of Lavietes Pavilion, proved unkind to the Crimson. The squad was embarrassed by host College of Charleston in the opener before dropping another tough overtime game to Tennessee Tech, leaving Harvard 4-8 heading into Ivy play...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: Frontcourt Best Part of M. Hoops' Play | 12/21/2004 | See Source »

...them. If this is true, then what taboo bars enjoyment of blackface comedy? The derision inherent in blackface, like that in “Gay or Asian?”, helps acclimatize audiences to a lower level of esteem for a racial minority. In the case of Asian Americans, unkind regard is often accompanied, paradoxically, by a myth that they are a “model” minority that is not being victimized; consequently, events of violence and denigration are ignored as exceptional. Ironically, the result has been a pattern of sub-standard treatment that...

Author: By Robin J. Tang, | Title: Asian or Just a Person Like You? | 4/26/2004 | See Source »

...standing-room-only crowd which packed Brown’s Pizzitola Sports Center to watch No. 22 Harvard defeat the No. 50 Bears 5-2 was raucous—and, at times, unkind. But it did shape what Crimson co-captain Cliff Nguyen declared “the most exciting match of my career...

Author: By Rebecca A. Seesel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: M. Tennis Takes Ivy Title With Wins | 4/26/2004 | See Source »

...further we read in Aloft the more we get the feeling that the superficially omnicompetent Jerry is totally unequipped to deal with pain--his own, he represses; that of others, he ignores. There's not an unkind bone in his body, but he's deeply passive and just wants everybody to pretend things are fine, and the fact that he can call himself on it isn't helping him change. "I'm one to leap up from the mat to aid all manner of strangers and tourists and other wide-eyed foreigners," he admits, "but when it comes to loved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Survival in the Suburbs | 3/22/2004 | See Source »

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