Word: behavior
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...young, blonde, attractive, and intelligent. You must be in school, preferably Tufts or Wellesley but BU and BC are acceptable (definitely not MIT). You should be able to hold a conversation, know when to be quiet, and polite in all your behavior. I have seen unruly guests embarrass members before…This event is black-tie, and I am willing to procure an evening gown for you. I hate to sound so harsh, but I have expectations to live up to. No Black, Asian, overweight, or unattractive women please. Picture required...
Wang is hyperintelligent, hilariously funny, sensitive?and self-deprecating. Having started out as a fashion editor at Vogue among some pretty big personalities, she has every reason to have adopted some strain of diva behavior. "I am not a diva," she says. And she's not. Born to traditional-minded Asian parents and raised with what she jokingly calls "good Midwestern values," Wang says, she's "a worker." Her work ethic?few could argue?has paid...
...truly dangerous false equation is Matory’s conflation of "criticism of Israeli policy" with anti-Zionism. By encouraging a state to improve its behavior rather than go away, real policy criticism assumes a state’s legitimate existence. But anti-Zionism, by definition, negates the Jewish—and only the Jewish—national right to self-determination. The former is part of a healthy debate in a free society. The latter is usually a coded expression of anti-Semitism, since it denies Jews what it rightly grants to all other nations...
...interview with TIME, Kilpatrick blamed some of his "boneheaded" behavior - particularly during his first term - on his youth, and his initial inexperience managing a major city. His image, especially the earring, alienated many of Detroit's black professionals, notably middle-aged women. "They didn't think I had the life skills, or they thought I wasn't like their sons - engineers or doctors," he says...
...Black Caucus, spent years in Michigan's legislature. His father was a county commissioner. A former college football captain who trained as a lawyer, Kwame Kilpatrick himself was a rising star in Michigan's legislature before being elected mayor. So he was hardly a political neophyte when he displayed behavior many view as unseemly for a sitting mayor of a major American city. For many, Kilpatrick's style and his attempts to cast himself as a racial martyr sent the message that, "This is our city now, and the thug life is OK," says Mildred Gaddis...