Word: denials
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Although Harvard was only outshot by one, Doyle’s routine denial of golden opportunities kept the Crimson in check and preserved the five-goal margin of victory...
...have so many definitions and identities that they contradict each other. Cambridge is the glorified hometown of Harvard University, yet very angry at Harvard for taking up precious space. West Cambridge is the home of over-paid (predominantly white) people who like the intellectual environment, and yet are in denial about the Cambridge student population of 30,000. Harvard wants to take over the world; Cambridge disagrees...
...international human rights lobby, which lodged a series of hysterical protests over the supposedly inhumane treatment of captured Taliban and al Qaeda fighters at Guantanamo Bay, has long been reluctant to condemn the denial of personal liberties in Castro’s prison-state. Many activists still cling to the myth of Cuba as a “workers’ paradise,” and thus cannot bring themselves to acknowledge the realities of state-sponsored murder, torture and persecution that have typified life for Cuban dissidents since the revolution in 1959. An unfortunately large group of Western liberals...
...Denial is nothing new for the notoriously hermetic state. Past cases of violence such as the 1997 shootings and a spate of bombings in Vientiane in 2000 have never been solved. Typically, authorities blame minority Hmong rebels opposed to the government, whether or not proof exists. This time, however, if the government and police muster up the will, they could make a stronger case. Survivors say the attackers looked Hmong and spoke the Hmong language. And one military officer claims the killers left a calling card lying on the European woman's corpse...
Some administrators reading this column may shake their heads in exasperation at the umpteenth senior writing the umpteenth editorial about a situation which is the obvious result of four-fifths bad planning and one-fifth unadulterated procrastination. I like to think of it as denial. Mixed in with bad planning and procrastination is the hope that somehow, next year, some new course will be offered that will offer respite from watching leopards mate with half of the freshman class. And lo, that class appears and while you warm your hands on the corner of the radiator allotted...