Word: abhor
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...Clown Posse, the book proposed to turn the tables on President Clinton's impeachment accusers, from Ken Starr and his staff to several anti-Clinton journalists, by exposing their secrets. The results, though, appear to exemplify the politics of personal destruction that Clinton's defenders have long claimed to abhor...
...insist and insist again, by Vague Generalities. We abhor V.G.'s, we skim right past them, we start wondering what kind of C to give from the first V.G. we encounter; and as they pile up we decide C- (Harvard being Harvard, we do not give D's. Consider C- a failure). Why? Not because they are a sign the student does not know the material, or hasn't thought creatively, or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading. "Locke is a transitional figure." "The whole thing boils down to human rights." Now I ask you, I have...
...some of which is paid out to political groups. The suit was brought by a group of conservative Christian students at the University of Wisconsin who found it downright un-American that they were forced to pay an annual $331 student activity fee that empowers some causes they abhor, including the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Campus Center and the Students of National Organization for Women (which supports abortion rights). The students' lawyers likened the fee to the "compelled speech" the Court outlawed last year in a ruling that banned labor unions from requiring fees for their PACs. But this was different...
...politics and media abhor a vacuum. Presidential candidates always pass through a series of metamorphoses (Bush and Gore have both been through two or three already). The Gore-Bush race may become, in its own way, riveting. We live in hope...
What was clear amid the diplomacy and demagoguery last week was that the other D word--democracy--had taken a serious hit. Though E.U. leaders abhor politics based on disparaging immigrants as crime-causing, job-snatching aliens, the inclusion of Haider's party in the government means that Austria's parliament is under the influence of a substantial contingent that favors just that brand of politics. This sets a dangerous precedent for European countries besieged by immigrants willing to settle for low-paying jobs that other residents often don't want. That wave of imported workers is tilting the continent...