Word: discreditable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...staff, in questioning CCH members' sincerity, attempts to discredit the charges against Gomes. Despite its call for full disclosure of the University's 1987 investigation, the staff clearly feels that, because CCH is the organization which questions Gomes' character, the charges of misconduct are not to be believed...
...Some students who work closely with the Foundation have expressed the view that The Crimson's editorial and articles were not designed to enlighten but rather to discredit the Harvard Foundation for its lack of involvement in The Crimson's racial agenda. For example, students cite the Harvard Foundation's for its lack of involvement in The Crimson group's recent hostilities with a Black City University of New York [CUNY] professor over his political beliefs...
Some students who work closely with the Foundation have expressed the view that the Crimson's editorial and articles were not designed to enlighten but rather to discredit the Harvard Foundation for its lack of involvement in the Crimson's racial agenda. For example, students cite the Harvard Foundation's refusal to be dragged into the Crimson group's recent hostilities with a Black City University of New York [CUNY] professor over his political beliefs...
...very Chinese -- though this film, like Zhang's earlier Ju Dou, has yet to be shown on the mainland. The authorities see that both pictures, about rebellious young people crushed by mean old men, abound in dangerous political implications. And so, to their eternal discredit, the old men who run China have deprived their nation of the profound and pertinent pleasures that China's best filmmaker has provided for the rest of the world. Zhang is one in a billion. When will the billion get to see his work...
...need a movement anymore; or that feminism's leaders, for all their efforts, somehow alienated their constituency; or that finally having choices allows women the luxury of second thoughts. Instead, she argues, women reject feminism because of a backlash against it -- a highly ; effective, often insidious campaign to discredit its goals, distort its message and make women question whether they really want equality after...