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Buttafuocum: n Any tawdry matter explored so thoroughly that further discussion of it inspires disgust. ("Princess Di, the Woody-Mia trial . . . I tell you, there's nothing but buttafuocum on TV tonight...
Powell's visit given Harvard students and faculty a unique opportunity to express our views before a national audience--one of the best opportunities we will have to show our disgust with the ban to millions...
Here might be a key to a moral mystery. I had wondered for months how in the face of the world's almost unanimous condemnation and disgust, the Serbs could keep up a war conducted by rape, murder and the starvation of whole cities. "Ethnic cleansing" has generated the worst public relations problem since Pol Pot went into politics: How do the Serbs keep on? How do they explain themselves to themselves...
...status. Special treatment always has and always will breed the perception of illegitimacy and self-doubt. That doesn't mean that all recipients of special treatment are unqualified, or deserve to be questioned. But damaging impressions necessarily persist. One African-American student at the Business School recently expressed his disgust with preferential treatment in a letter to The Crimson: "if the policy is different for Blacks than for whites, then whites have an excuse to cry foul and Blacks, like myself, remain chained by our own self-doubt...
...officials. Enraged by Serb blockades that prevented U.N. food convoys from reaching 100,000 Muslims trapped in besieged towns in eastern Bosnia, Muslim President Alija Izetbegovic stopped distribution of U.N. relief supplies to the 380,000 residents of Sarajevo -- in effect pushing them into a sympathetic hunger strike. In disgust at the intransigence on all sides, Sadako Ogata, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, ordered a stop to all U.N. relief efforts until they can be carried out without hindrance. U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali promptly rebuked her and ordered shipments resumed, remarking, "I am supposed to direct this...