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From his opening remarks, Gabay tried to dispel his "old-boy network" stigma, including a charge later in the debate by Garza that Gabay had threatened to resign if Beys were impeached following what Garza called a "check writing scandal...
Jacksonville has mounted a fabulously expensive campaign to get an NFL expansion team. The city government has made the campaign its first priority, promising that a football team (with the few hundred part-time jobs it will create) will dispel Jacksonville's backwater image and make it a "first-tier city...
...places on this campus better represent the patrician ideals of Old Harvard than the final clubs. While most of us would like to dispel the image of Harvard as a stratified old-boy network, these stalwarts work to keep that image a reality...
...author seeks, admirably, to dispel the myth of children's innocence by questioning our tendency to locate childhood in an Edenic state of prelapsarian innocence. To ascribe to them an imagined innocence is to do them and adults a grave disservice...
Economic injustice and its symptoms will never end unless people in positions of power--or people like us, who will be--start to end these myths of academia, dispel elitist liberalism and turn back to reality. We have to realize both our complicity in the problem and our power to solve it. Racism isn't utterly incurable--it has real, definable causes which are themselves unjust and evil. By ignoring this fact we are committing injuries more grievous than those committed in South Boston, isolating ourselves from the reality we ourselves have created...