Word: wronging
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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THIS smugness makes the PC ideology defeat itself. By dividing the world into the correct and the wrong, PC advocates ignore many of the real issues behind campus controversies...
...situation in South Africa allows Harvard a graceful way to back away from what was a wrong policy," said Robert P. Wolff '54, executive director of the Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid, which nominated Tutu to the 30-member Board. "It now looks like there is a real possibility of negotiating an end to apartheid, so it's impor- tant that Harvard throw its weight behind thatprospect...
...establishment of law- and-order.' And others said, 'No, in our religious tradition, which you and I share, the purpose of government is the establishment of justice.' De Klerk replied, 'You are right.' P.W. Botha would never have admitted that someone else could be right and he wrong...
This argument is wrong on its face. This is the era of Cosby and affirmative action. If today's high dropout rates, drug abuse and teen pregnancy stem from negative characterizations of minorities, then 40 years ago -- the era of Amos 'n' Andy and parks with NO DOGS OR NEGROES signs -- self-esteem should have been lower and social pathology worse. Of course, the opposite is true. In 40 years negative characterizations have decreased and social pathologies have increased...
Rockne is uneasy. Last night at a party he met Brent Musburger, who seemed to be a nice fellow. But Rockne's suit was afraid of Musburger's suit, and kept trying to bend the wrong way at the knees and elbows. Rockne's suit is wrinkled and brown. Musburger's is the finest in town, but others nearly as rich and dark trap the light of distant stars in the lobbies of the Hilton and the Hyatt Regency...