Word: dismissals
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Neither Taylor nor Forum's lawyers would comment on Hay and Shleifer's liability. Taylor said Harvard has not decided whether it will file a motion to dismiss the suit...
...instantly be on the phone with PETA. However, when the poor creature is no more than a figure created with a computer drawing program (as it is in the short "Stinky Monkey"), the animal abuse is nothing less than hilarious. Spike and Mike have capitalized on this tendency to dismiss animation as frivolous to show cartoons that, if seriously considered, would deeply offend. For instance, the masturbation scene in "Rick and Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in the World" contains a shot that an audience might find funny in a live action movie if it weren't so completely politically...
...undergraduates were raped at Harvard last year. And that is just in the last year. Sexual assault happens here with survivors knowing their attackers. It happens in dorm rooms and at parties. It happens to people you know. Do not be so afraid to hear these words that you dismiss them...
...Bush and his team of advisers - many of them members of the Reagan-Bush foreign policy brain trust - dismiss the significance of what Gore calls the "new strategic agenda" and take a dim view of the efficacy of U.S. interventions. Bush adheres closely to the doctrine articulated by Colin Powell, his favored future secretary of state: military interventions "need to be in our vital interest, the mission needs to be clear and the exit strategy obvious." Local conflicts are better left to regional powers. Bush considers the Clinton-Gore deployments in Haiti and Somalia ill-advised attempts at "nation building...
...mean to dismiss the intellectual life for others. A while back, I saw Harold Bloom, the great old Yale professor and author, most recently of How to Read and Why, talking on C-SPAN's Booknotes. Weepy, flabby, brilliant, he was full of hope and sorrow for the literary life that is mistreated and unvalued today. He spoke up for Cervantes and Shakespeare. He had "divorced" the Yale English department. He hated e-books. If you have a mind like Bloom's, no problem...