Word: dismisses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bowdren is entitled to dismiss Take Back the Night as nothing more than a "militant feminist yahoo festival." However, in publishing this profoundly prejudicial column on the day of the rally without a counter-balancing opinion, The Crimson did a disservice to is readership...
...When [the police] realized [their mistake],they offered to dismiss, but I wanted a notguilty," Silverglate says...
Casual observers are quick to dismiss Vladimir Zhirinovsky as a fanatic whose visions of becoming Russia's dictator are pipe dreams. Sixty years ago, the same was said of Hitler. Historian Robert Waite writes. "The story of Hitler's rise to power is the story of his underestimation." Like those who once dismissed Hitler as a fringe lunatic, those who now scoff at Zhirnovsky are taking a dangerous gamble...
...also wonder why, as a civil libertarian, Prof. Dershowitz would so eagerly dismiss the courts as an aggrieved student's last line of defense against powerful university administrators. Joshua A. Gerstein '91 The writer, a television news producer in Washington, D.C., is a former Senior Editor of The Crimson...
Brown begins by carefully defining the Jewish role in the death of Jesus. "In a context of hostile inter-Jewish feelings," he says, "how can one dismiss as unthinkable a desire on the part of some fellow Jews for severe action against Jesus, a troubling religious figure?" He stresses that many ordinary Jews sympathized with Jesus, and that only the leaders were responsible for the death sentence. "I'm not talking about guilt," he says, merely "responsibility." Explains Brown: "Those who contribute to the execution of an accused are responsible for that death. They are guilty only if they know...