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Referencing historical examples, such as British imperial rule in India and public humiliation during the Chinese communist revolution, he said that oppressors can more easily commit violence against people whom they habitually degrade...
...approval of the dean,” Hanson said. “Because of the City of Cambridge, [later hours] have to be approved each year, so I think that it’s just in the nature of things that this is not something we can commit to in perpetuity...
...borne that out." Racists, street thugs and school bullies all polled high on the self-esteem charts. And you can see why. If you think you're God's gift, you're particularly offended if other people don't treat you that way. So you lash out or commit crimes or cut ethical corners to reassert your pre-eminence. After all, who are your moral inferiors to suggest that you could be doing something, er, wrong? What do they know...
After a meeting with the Daily on Sept. 22, campus minority leaders say the newspaper refused to commit in writing to their demands, resulting in the boycott. Why boycott, as opposed to another form of protest? According to Aundrea Johnson, the speaker of the Black Student Union, “the Daily needs to recognize that without students of color supporting their paper, the paper becomes a worse paper than the way it is now.” And there is no doubt the protesters will succeed in that respect—by refusing to comment for articles...
...choices before me are either to commit to a course I have little interest in, or to surrender my guaranteed teaching slot there in favor of a possible position with the course I’m truly interested in. Unless I’m independently wealthy, it’s clear that there’s great pressure upon me to go with the former option rather than the latter—come Oct. 1, my Somerville slumlord looking for the rent was not going to be interested in a sob story about how kids today just don?...