Word: complicitous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There isn't really a legal wall betweenHarvard Management and the University," Williamsonsaid in an interview. "Whether people over herewere complicit, I don't know. Maybe they were justnaive...
...think Howard Yager is complicit, and we have some things that would suggest that. Ultimately his deposition will be taken, and if it confirms our belief...we're going to sue him too." Howard's only comment, passed on by Faye: "He's told me to get out of this for years...
Adam J. Levitin's dissent from the editorial supporting gay rights (Staff Editorial, Apr. 7) said, "...to state that the majority of Americans, who are conflicted about their personal views on homosexuality and uncomfortable with queer culture, are complicit in active persecution is inappropriate." Levitin's argument implies that it would be just as accurate to say that since the majority of Americans are conflicted about their personal views of Judaism and feel uncomfortable with Jewish culture (with the exception of bagels), they are not complicit in anti-Semitism. If it were not for protections against public and private religious...
...would consider anyone who was not openly against anti-Semitism to be complicit in the preservation of the persecution. This should also be the case for gay rights: it is not a matter of "comfort" but of mutual respect and protection. If we allow the "abnormal" to be marginalized and criminalized, then we are all in danger of being defined out of the mainstream. The majority has a great deal of authority in this country, for good reasons, but it is implicit in our Constitution that the authority of the majority cannot cancel out the right of the individual...
...staff is right to call for tolerance and protective legislation for gays and lesbians. But to state that the majority of Americans, who are conflicted about their personal views on homosexuality and uncomfortable with queer culture, are complicit in active persecution is inappropriate. Tolerance should exist for their views...