Word: dismissed
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TSONGAS THE SERIOUS. Looking at what passes for Tsongas' national campaign, it is tempting to dismiss his strong New Hampshire finish as a freak of nature. Tsongas is, after all, a contender who introduced Texas railroad commissioner Bob Krueger as "my Southern connection" and meant it: that is about all the organizational support Tsongas has in many March primary states. The campaign last week had just one staff member in Georgia and a lone 19-year-old holding down the fort in South Carolina. True, Tsongas raised $360,000 the day after New Hampshire, but he still largely depends...
...early January 1991, Harvard University filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit in Massachusetts Superior Court. Harvard argued that the students did not have the legal right to bring the suit--or "standing"--and that the students had not made out a prima facie claim of discrimination. On February 22, 1991, the Superior Court granted Harvard's motion to dismiss on the grounds of standing. It refused, however, to dismiss the case on its merits, finding that the students had made out a prima facie claim of discrimination. The charges of discrimination, then, remain as the students appeal the standing...
There's a lot more, all ugly, with three pages of bibliography, no less, to support it. What does it say about the reader, or the Japanese, that it is harder to dismiss this stuff than if the slurs began "All Jews . . ." or "All Arabs...
Rather than feeling pride, Choi is furious that his life was a concoction of parental aspirations and that people dismiss his struggles as a relic of a politically incorrect stereotype. In one sweep, he accepts a negative stereotype for all Asian-Americans based upon his own struggles. It is not the stereotype of Asians being pre-meds being grade-grubbing, socially inept anal warts...
Others, however, dismiss Buchanan as a crank who stands no chance on a national level and who seems to be a "David Duke without the peroxide." What is the truth? Is this man a threat to the head of his own party, or merely an irresponsible columnist who has grown too big for his britches? Probably the latter. Here...