Word: disavows
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...shore up the system. Before black audiences, Obama regularly condemns violent and misogynist rap lyrics and chastises African Americans for disenfranchising themselves by not voting. In March, Obama caused some consternation among Jewish leaders by saying, "No one is suffering more than the Palestinian people." Given the chance to disavow that comment during a debate, Obama merely clarified it, saying the fuller context included an assertion that this suffering was the result of "the failure of the Palestinian leadership...
Well, that's true. It will be harder to disavow things...
...this time the terrorism is carried out not by some shadowy group that the Palestinian leader can disavow, however disingenuously. This is Hamas in action--the group that was recently elected to lead the Palestinians. At least there is now truth in advertising: a Palestinian government openly committed to terrorism and to the destruction of a member state of the U.N. openly uses terrorism to carry...
...action. Bok addressed the controversy in an open letter that spring, defending the University’s admissions and hiring policy and reasserting his support for affirmative action.But, then-president of the Black Law Students Association Penny Marshall said the open letter “does not address or disavow the findings of Klitgaard, and we are concerned about that.” Klitgaard, who analyzed data from the College and the graduate schools for his report, today says the fallout took him by surprise.“We expected people to be creative and rational...
...Goldsmith who pushed to disavow the famous 2002 memo justifying torture after it was leaked to The Washington Post in June 2004, according to the article. By the end of the summer, he had left the administration, and in November, he joined the faculty at Harvard Law School...