Word: condemned
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...isolationists are prepared to relegate the Holocaust to the category of historical curiosity and condemn all use of analogy as misguided and dangerous to the power of the Holocaust itself. Yet they themselves sap the Holocaust of meaning by making it inapplicable to modern problems. The vivid images of evil and the world's deafening silence that this tragedy conjures up are rendered irrelevant when it singularity is emphasized above all else...
That The Crimson chose to focus upon a certain group and condemn its behaviors as deviant seems to us to be rather arbitrary and, quite frankly, elitist. Students at Harvard choose to organize themselves in a myriad of different ways' The Crimson disputes few of them. Why single out The Resistance for Criticism...
...course, we deal with the results of honesty and dishonesty all the time. The thefts I have mentioned are all obviously examples of dishonesty, and we condemn them on a case by case basis. But we rarely extrapolate from these specific examples to a more general discussion of the scruples of the society in which we live. I find this surprising, considering how highly moralized America is, and how highly moralizing Americans...
Burnett insists he would never commit violence but refuses to condemn those who do. As for a conspiracy, he claims that if there is one, he knows nothing about it. Burnett says he and several magazine staff members were called last year before a federal grand jury in Portland that was investigating Shannon's involvement in a series of arsons. When the indictment was handed up, only Shannon was charged in attacks at nine clinics in Oregon, California, Nevada and Idaho. Prosecutors and federal agents are still pressuring her to implicate others. "There is no question that the government thinks...
...would condemn [the slurs] most strongly as akind of intolerance unseemly at Harvard College,"he said...