Word: asserting
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Feldman terms this kind of action typical of the Jewish response to the African-American community. "It's a public expression of power," he says. "It says we're going to assert our authority over...
...then, if millions of people will stay in the ring with me and assert their role as owners of the country, and if, see, when we have these town-hall presentations, Congress, the Cabinet, the leaders in that particular field, it won't be me telling the people. It's not a fireside chat. We will really be explaining this to the people. Congress will be in the middle...
...this sense, then, "[v]ulgar cultural nationalists...like Allan Bloom or Leonard Jeffrey...are whistling in the wind." Whether they falsely assert Anglo-American culture as universal (a la Bloom) or "lay claim to the ideal of 'blackness' as an ideology or a quasi religion, totalized and essentialized into a protofascist battering ram supervised by official thought police" (a la Jeffries), they fail to ready the young for the world they will face...
...wish this conflict could have been solved in a less unpleasant way for all the people involved, but we hope that with this correction of the facts, it will end peacefully. Independently of the above statement, the director and the producer wish to assert that sexual harassment never took place, and that such an accusation is unjustified, irresponsible, unacceptable, and of questionable motivation. Sam Ferrell '95, Nicholas Gordon '95, Raiko Mancini '92, Duane Moles '95, Philip Munger '93, Grigore Pop Eleches '95, Anne Richards '95, Konstantions Tsakonas '93, Karen Todd '95, Julian von Loesch '93, Terry Yang...
Counter and Reid argue that Black-Jewish relations are the most serious race relations problem on our campus. They assert that Jewish students protest speakers they find "distasteful" and "allegedly 'anti-Jewish.'" In the first place, Hillel does not protest speakers it finds "distasteful," but rather those who are blatantly racist and anti-Semitic...