Word: bigotism
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Tacitly, every member of the military is tagged as a bigot who does not accept Harvards principled stand, whether or not they actually oppose homosexuals serving openly. Potential recruits are forced to choose whether national defense or the freedom for gays to tell their squad mates about their sexual inclinations is more important. The University clearly supports the latter notion...
What is not mentioned enough, however, is Professor Aaron, who spent these past seven years inside the tortured mind of the megalomaniacal bigot misogynist Peeping Tom hypochondriac called Arthur Inman. In his fulminations, Inman addresses the editor who would not come along until twelve years after his death; he bullies, wheedles, whines, pleads. Then along comes Aaron, who responds to the dead diarist--and in so doing becomes a flesh-and-blood character. Inman says at one point that "a diary expurgated and deleted is a eunuch of a diary." Aaron says at another, "Oh, for God's sake, Arthur...
...urges President Summers to continue to invest in Israel. In October, Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz accuses Winthrop House Master Paul D. Hanson, who signed the divestment petition, of anti-semitism and challenges him to a debate on the subject; Hanson declines and Dershowitz calls him a bigot in front of a group of 200 students in a Winthrop common room. President Summers calls the divestment plan “anti-Semitic in [its] effect if not [its] intent” and refuses to entertain the idea of divestment...
...BEEN CALLED THE BIGGEST BIGOT IN AMERICAN MEDIA. HOW DO YOU RESPOND TO THOSE CHARGES? I don't have any comment about it. It's absurd. You know, ask the kids who have sickle cell that come to the ranch [a New Mexico facility that he built for children who have cancer or blood disorders] whether I'm a bigot or not. Have we made fun of African Americans or Asians or Caucasians? Yeah, sure. But people have to calm down...
...Indian economy to private competition and foreign investment. The result has been a spectacular burst of economic growth; last year, the economy grew by more than 7%. Vajpayee's recent trip to Pakistan has also reconfirmed a feeling among many Indian Muslims that their Prime Minister is not a bigot. In Lucknow, Muslims say that they believe Vajpayee's sensitivity to their concerns stretches back to his tenure as India's Foreign Minister in the late 1970s, when he took steps to make it easy for Indian Muslims to work in the Middle East. "He's not a hard-liner...