Word: disrespected
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Carrasco said he understands that many students are disappointed in West’s decision and that he is “leaving in an atmosphere of desperation and what might appear as disrespect for African American and Latino students...
...reactionary ideas backed by historical half-truths. But the most upsetting thing was the support that students in the audience showed for him. When Horowitz was bold enough to claim that certain countries were plagued by “screwed up cultures,” Harvard students were disrespectful enough to clap and cheer. That students at this premier University would be so ready to accept other cultures as “screwed up” is alarming. Although there are legitimate problems in every culture (including our own), we should discuss them intelligently without recourse to inflammatory language...
...Fehim Elshani, 67, a Kosovo Albanian, made the journey. Looking dignified in a three-piece suit, the accountant turned farmer took his place in the witness chair, shifting his body so that his back was turned to the defendant--who was also doing the questioning. In a show of disrespect, Elshani refused to face the man he holds responsible for the seven dead bodies he found in his yard and for the man in police camouflage who put a knife to Elshani's throat and swore, in Serbian, he would cut it like a sheep's. Pointing his finger...
...Oscar Biscet, Jose Orlando Gonzalez Bridon. They are victims of a regime that in 2001 was rated by Freedom House as one of the most repressive in the world —worse than Libya and Syria, worse even than China. They have been arrested for “disrespect,” for “dangerousness,” for “conduct that is in manifest contradiction with the norms of socialist morality.” And none of them will be teaching at Harvard next semester...
...about meeting someone who is rich and famous. Underwood did not deserve to have articles written about him calling him unworthy to be a host. And no Harvard student who has been working hard on planning the day for the past few months deserves to have Summers show such disrespect. Cultural Rhythms is supposed to be about more than just name-dropping, shoulder-rubbing and bad politics, but that’s how it was treated by many this year. What a shame...