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...Executive Board of the Harvard-Radcliffe Black Students Association would like to express its anger and disdain for the uniformed and ridiculously speculative article "Science Fiction" by Gavin M. Abrams in The Crimson of Friday, October...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Abrams Misrepresented BSA, Fardan | 10/28/1991 | See Source »

...actually contact anyone in Mather House? Is it any surprise that the UC is frequently treated with disdain when it cannot even administer its own election properly and consistently...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Awful Process | 10/26/1991 | See Source »

...There is a fundamental disdain or disrespect for the Constitution," he said. He added that he especially disapproves of modern presidents' constant use of the veto...

Author: By Sean L. Presant and Anna D. Wilde, S | Title: McCarthy Speaks To Group at HLS | 10/15/1991 | See Source »

Just days after Boris Yeltsin risked his life to defeat the August coup, anonymous White House sources were leaking contempt and disdain for Yeltsin. A week earlier, the man had saved not only his country but the entire Bush foreign policy (which had placed all its bets on Gorbachev) and Washington was already dumping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Who Loved Dictators | 10/14/1991 | See Source »

...words or deeds. Denying that luck, family support and other factors, including affirmative action, may have helped them, TBS victims con themselves into believing they have made it solely because they are exceptionally gifted individuals who are innately superior to less fortunate members of their race. They often exhibit disdain for poor blacks, especially those who are on welfare or have given birth to a child out of wedlock. They believe if more blacks were "like me" -- intelligent instead of stupid, hard working instead of lazy, educated instead of ignorant, morally upright instead of slatternly -- racial progress would be assured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Race The Pain Of Being Black | 9/16/1991 | See Source »

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