Word: notion
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What did surprise me was that no one has criticized Boston magazine for their reasoning behind the use of that term. The notion of the existence of an "H.N.I.C." in the first place is an insulting one. The opening sentences of the article offended me more than the poor title choice. "As chief interpreter of the black experience for white America," the article begins, "Harvard's Henry Louis Gates, Jr. may be the most influential black man in America today....In the parlance of black activists, he has become the new Head Negro in Charge...
...Long Beach, Calif., that afternoon. Jones' husband Steve, who has said of the President that he "hates the bastard," told TIME that "this is not over by a long shot. We'll fight until the last day. It's an injustice, a travesty." What especially galled him was the notion that Clinton's alleged behavior did not rise to the standard of sexual harassment. "If dropping your pants and waving your penis around is not sexual harassment," Jones said, "I don't know what...
Excluding a few bright lights of free thought in Western history, the racial and gender exclusivity of European societies has been guarded for centuries behind a bastion of "moral" reasoning. One need only look at our notion of miscegenation, for example, to see how such concepts as racial intermarriage were considered radically immoral aberrations of depraved individuals, or, for a more proximate example, the hate-laced editorials in the very pages of the Harvard Crimson against the granting of lending privileges to Radcliffe students wishing to use Lamont Library just a few decades...
...admit the notion of human chimeras is still unnerving and worthy of debate, but we must not look at the issue as a slippery slope. Humankind (researchers and the rest of us alike) has always proceeded with some trepidation on genetic research, and caution is usually the rule of thumb. In fact, with the charged morality of the chimera issue, it is highly unlikely that any scientist would try to create a species with near-human intellect and even more inconceivable that they could do so with the hopes of monetary profit that Newman has in mind as motivation...
...thought we had changed in our notion of substantive programming," Reeves said. "We'd like to beef up what [the teens] do there...make it more educational...