Word: disregarding
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...offended by the scheduled events.” But some students said that the timing of the event was insensitive. The president of the conservative weekly Harvard Salient, Travis R. Kavulla ’06-’07, said that the party’s timing showed disregard for Good Friday, but he added that the theme of the party would be inappropriate at any time of the year. Kavulla wrote an e-mail to the freshman deans expressing his disapproval. “My primary objection is that an event of this nature is always vulgar...
There are times when we wish for some firmer conclusion about the sources of Page's chipper amorality. On the other hand, Gretchen Mol is so game and adorable as Page, so at ease with her own nakedness--not to mention so blithe in her disregard for everyone else's prudishness--that by the end of the film we just take Page to heart...
...editors: I wholeheartedly disagree with your castigation of the U.S. for its opposition to the newly-adopted UN Human Rights Council (“Reforming the UN,” editorial, Apr. 12). Opposing the Council is not a “show of disregard for multilateralism and compromise” but rather a vote for effective human rights protection. The new Council is not an improvement from its predecessor, the UN Human Rights Commission. Other than where a country is located, there is not a single criterion for membership, and countries must rotate off the Council after...
...another show of disregard for multilateralism and compromise, the U.S. voted down the United Nations resolution calling for the creation of the Human Rights Council. Despite the U.S. move, fortunately, the General Assembly approved the new Council in a 170 to 4 vote, and this approval marks a step in the right direction for the U.N., whose former Human Rights Commission had been discredited by its questionable membership of such nations as Cuba and Iran. The U.S. justified its vote by heralding its own high standards for human rights, while lambasting the current resolution for its lenient admission procedures. John...
...while they may corner the market on this refreshingly blatant disregard for property rights, the Chinese don’t have a monopoly on the subtler manipulations of artistic censorship...