Word: dismissals
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...easy to dismiss Ebon Y. Lee’s recent column, a call to “Boycott South Korea” (Column, Jan. 17), as an embarrassingly uninformed and needlessly inflammatory reaction to allegations of anti-Americanism in South Korea. But the fact that such allegations are coming from mainstream U.S. media is worrying. The recent candlelight vigils in Seoul for the two teenage girls accidentally killed by U.S. armored vehicles are interpreted as proof that the South Korean population is anti-American. Sure, the protests have allowed some South Koreans to vent anti-American feelings left over from...
...past, doctors and scientists have tended to dismiss that view as bunk, but the more they learn about the inner workings of the mind, the more they realize that in this regard at least, the mystics are right and Descartes was dead wrong...
...rouse a few roars from the old lions. When, last November, Britain's Foreign Secretary Jack Straw mildly ventured that "a lot of the problems that we are having to deal with now are a consequence of our colonial past," right-wing commentators and historians lined up to dismiss his remarks as "guilty screams about the past." Their outrage underlines the novelty of hearing a British minister even voice the doubt. Ferguson is spot-on when he holds that the Empire is as much a reality today as ever. Between the 17th and mid-20th centuries, 20 million people - some...
Boston attorney Isaac Peres, who represents the tenants, filed a motion Monday to dismiss the case, which was scheduled to begin on January...
Some might dismiss this conclusion as yet another misguided, ultimately hollow, cry against conspiracy. But conservative forces have already successfully distorted the legacy of a progressive hero. Michael Eric Dyson explains this process in detail in his biography of Martin Luther King, I May Not Get There With You: “Conservatives must be applauded for their perverse ingenuity in coopting King’s legacy and the rhetoric of the civil rights movement…Now terms like “equal playing field,” “racial justice...