Word: blatantness
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...Iraqis or Iraqi-American dual citizens living in the United States. The second would allow the government to collect individual consumer information gathered by the private sector to create profiles of citizens to identify potential terrorists. In the pursuit of national security, the Bush administration has shown a blatant disregard for the protection of civil liberties...
...offer their angry words in retort would never truly solve the problem at hand. What would have happened, as has happened many times in the past with newspapers across the nation, is that there would have been a “dialogue” and the same instances of blatant and subtle racism would continue. The students instead sought to take action through the boycott, hoping that this action would force the paper not only to recognize its mistakes but also to actually implement true reforms. The crux of their recommendations is that the paper work towards...
Campuses were not immune from the wave of backlashes and blatant intimidation. Only a week after the Sept. 11 attacks, two Muslim girls were beaten at Moraine Valley College in Palos Hills, Illinois. At the University of Connecticut, a Muslim female student had her hijab (Islamic head covering) torn off and then she was chased off campus...
...miniscule sample of athletes as the crux of arguments against a larger population is egregiously misleading. Regardless of the accuracy of these statements, the idea that the words of a few individuals, taken out of context, properly portray Harvard’s athletes shows a lack of integrity. The blatant disdain Smith and his ilk have shown for “under-qualified athletic recruits” is the source of embittered statements by individual athletes, which don’t portray the sentiment of Harvard’s athletes at large...
...Crimson, that he “never said that students and professors who signed the petition were anti-Semitic.” (Letters, “Debate Coverage Misses Point of Article,” Oct. 9) It is, I suppose, good news that he dissociates himself from the blatant assertion of racism attributed...