Word: reactional
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This letter is in reference to Zachary S. Podolsky’s column on Harvard’s reaction to Blair Hornstine (“The Blair Witch Hunts,” May 16). Unexpectedly finding myself mentioned as a signer of a petition that supposedly represents “arrogance and hypocrisy,” I feel the need to question Podolsky’s quickness to judge me (and the others who have spoken out against her lawsuit...
...they are products of their environment. They likely grew up in a culture where it was an accepted fact for homosexuals to be discriminated against. Perhaps they were told that the God they worship believed homosexuality was sinful. For these Americans, homophobia just became another habit, another knee-jerk reaction...
...This is what the Democrats are really all about. They are the party of peaceniks; they mistrust the military; they are not tough enough to protect America. This analysis was both right and wrong. In February, Dean did set the Democratic National Committee's winter meeting afire, but the reaction of the party faithful to Dean was no different from the Republican faithful's wild enthusiasm for red-meat orators like Alan Keyes and Pat Buchanan in years past. Most Democrats do not have a death wish. Ever since the George McGovern disaster in 1972, the party has routinely chosen...
...anti-SARS task force has been hastily assembled, the military has been called into action to help disinfect Taipei's streets and hospitals and strict quarantine measures have been imposed in the capital with stiff fines for violators. Still, some worry that the disease is gathering momentum and bureaucratic reaction times remain too slow. A foreign health-care specialist, who declined to be identified, notes that more than 100 suspected SARS cases in Taiwan have yet to be reviewed by epidemiologists?meaning the number of victims might be substantially higher than the official tally. "Clearly there are major structural...
What’s really grabbed my attention, though, has been the fallout of this incident—and especially the reaction to it here in Cambridge. We have been quite long on criticism and quite short on the self-reflection and accounting that such incidents ought to provoke...