Word: bitter
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...members to choose between service to country and self-expression. If it is your misfortune to belong to this marginalized minority, you can forget about a military career unless you hide your true identity in the shadow of the closet. Can we watch unmoved as our compatriots suffer the bitter bite of bias? Can we permit this brazen affront to the Most Holy Ideal of Equality? Nay. We cannot. We must not. Let the military be banned from Harvard forever...
After a week of bitter cold, sunny skies and unseasonably warm temperatures prevailed on Friday for the installation of Harvard’s 27th president, Lawrence Henry Summers...
...represented bitter medicine to them,” Rosovsky has been quoted as saying. “I was a Jew. In style and appearance I wasn’t their kind...
...ratings soar because both the media and the president’s political opponents temporarily stop attacking him. The present situation is no exception. Prominent Democrats are making a big deal out of supporting the president in whatever action he takes. In recent speeches, even former vice president and bitter rival Al Gore ’69 has expressed support for Bush...
...dropped nearly 40,000 aid packages into Afghanistan since the bombing began on Sunday. Even before the air strikes began, the Bush administration pledged $320 million in aid to the Afghan people; some in Congress expect that figure to rise precipitously if the strikes continue into the looming, bitter Central Asian winter...