Word: absurdities
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...It’s a timely thing, but it’s not calculated.”And of course, they too have to deal with those dreaded two words: gay cowboy. Lee professes that his greatest issue with the phrase is that such a seemingly absurd combination might bear the “connotation of being a comedy.” For Gyllenhaal, the stigma of that label scared him away from the script when it was initially shown to him at the age of 16. “When I first heard about it, I heard about...
...international human rights concerns into the single term “politics” reveals a disturbing underlying attitude of indifference and resignation. It suggests that University President Lawrence H. Summers is as autonomous of student opinion as is North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. This seems an absurd correlation—but if the students’ will is not meaningfully expressed through the organized leadership of the UC, it exerts influence over nothing. Condemning the UC’s vote has implications far beyond the single issue of janitor’s wages. It reinforces and amplifies what...
...candidates promised that away to get the feminists’ endorsement, but be assured, they appreciate and understand the criticisms.Occasionally, candidates rise above (or perhaps sink below) pandering and instead talk about why they are best-suited for the office—an enterprise that quickly becomes an absurd game of one-upmanship. Voith and running-mate Tara Gadgil ’07 want you to know that they have eight semesters of UC experience between them. Eight...I’m in thrall.But wait: it turns out that the strength of the Haddock ticket is that Annie R. Riley...
...contrary, there was a sharp decline) only bolsters this argument. Hopefully Harvard, along with Captain Evans and his minions, will follow Yale’s lead next year at the Game and strive to create a safe tailgating atmosphere without impeding upon harmless student revelry by enacting absurd rules that are then strictly enforced. This year’s tailgate in New Haven only proved that U-Hauls, kegs, and laid back law enforcement do nothing to promote the dangerous debauchery that so terrifies the Harvard administration...
...quoting and picking tidbits out of context” from his sources.When Chomsky accused the American media of failing to cover Israeli helicopter attacks on Palestinian homes in the first weeks of the current intifada and the subsequent American shipment of attack helicopters to Israel, Dershowitz said it was absurd to believe Chomsky’s claims of a media conspiracy.“Why would the newspapers not cover these stories?” Dershowitz said. “They are figments of Chomsky’s imagination.”Dershowitz said that his opponent lived...