Word: blatantness
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...look sillier in movies like Dead Poets Society than in movies like Jack,) this is the movie of the year. The screenplay respects the audience's sensibilities, the characters are multifaceted and intriguing, and of course, it has some great shots of the Spare Change man on Mass. Ave.--blatant Harvard propaganda at its best. Not only does it have the only "poor boy from the wrong side of the tracks meets high-spirited rich girl" story that matters this year, but it recognizes that intelligence comes in all forms...
...generation ago, Jones would have had no case. Not even blatant quid pro quo harassment was illegal; many judges simply deemed such matters "personal." When they were allowed to bring lawsuits, plaintiffs--nearly all women at the time, and still nearly 90% women today--had no right to jury trials, leaving their fate up to a mostly male stable of judges...
...fact, it is the Congress party which has historically pandered to minority interests in return for votes and turned a blind eye to communal violence when minorities withdrew support. Congress's blatant non-intervention in anti-Sikh violence in the 1984 Punjab reprisal and anti-Muslim violence in the 1992 Bombay riots are ample evidence. The incidence of communal violence has actually gone down in the states where Hindu nationalism has replaced the hypocritical "secularism" of Congress. This is because "Hindutva," while being a more Hindu-centric view, most definitely does not entail oppression of minorities but rather just...
After experiencing what they described as "a blatant act of racially-motivated harassment" by a Cambridge police officer, three Harvard seniors on Tuesday demanded University action to prevent such incidents from recurring...
Although discrimination is not as blatant inthe Jewish community, some said assimilation canat times be a problem...