Word: righting
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...council and especially the small impact that the loss of one officer will have on the life of the College. The extremely troubling part is the instant reaction of some to bring in skin color and racism. Must we really be so petty? This is not a vast right-wing conspiracy or the work of a prejudiced Harvard plot. Not everything is about race. I was glad to see that issues of skin color never came up in Burton's election, so why should they come up in his fall...
That "something" came in the form of two articles of impeachment signed by 10 council members. The Boston Globe, in a mocking article, wrote that "those defending the accused, however, see the work of a vast right-wing conspiracy with racist overtones, seeking to overturn an election that replaced a conservative administration with a liberal...
...greatest shape right now," he said. "I've definitely seen him play a lot better in the past...
...mail came thick and fast. A lot of it agreed with me. The most unsettling messages brainlessly cheered me on by making the totally false and insulting assumption that I share John Rocker's views and, worse, that Rocker was absolutely right in what he said. Naturally, the run-to-mommy prisses were heard from: "Ooo, ooo, Johnny Rocker said a bad word, and I'm gonna tell!" Numerous messages said Rocker deserved to be keelhauled and flogged around the fleet...
...hurting its own cause as it faces mounting pressure to disarm from quarters as diverse as the U.S., the Irish Republic and the moderate Social Democratic and Labor Party, which represents the majority of Northern Ireland's Catholics. They may complain that the goalposts have been shifted, but right now the IRA has more to lose by giving up the game...