Word: cynicisms
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Call me a cynic. But if our backgrounds can make us look unique and "ethnic" to elite professional schools or high-powered recruiters looking to build diverse groups or assuage white guilt, we should milk them for all they're worth. As a Filipino-American, if I have to dance the tinikling or scarf down lechon to advance my career, I'll do it gladly...
Sixteen years later, I'm still a wishful thinker. I always look on the bright side, probably because I am deeply anxious about the possibility that I'll err on the low side and someone will call me a cynic. Call me a cynic...
...Call me a cynic, but I'm not so sure that any of you are the people to be leading the council in a new direction," said David V. Bonfili '96. "It's kind of like the skipper of the Exxon Valdez standing before us and saying that he's the environment's last best hope...
...people were talking about ever, we could have our best season ever, and how we could win the league, but I wasn't one of them," she says. "Call me the enternal cynic, but that just wasn't realistic--we knew we had way too many defensive problems--especially pitching--to do something like that...
Mark one up for the "eternal cynic...