Word: disrespectful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bennett predicted that Harvard's Core Curriculum will survive Bok's resignation, because of strong support from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). "No disrespect intended, but Derek Bok has tended to listen to the judgement of the Faculty," Bennett said. "But that judgement is defective," said Bennett, who called the core a "convenience for the faculty...
...share the stage with Clay, in protest against his foul-mouthed material denigrating women, homosexuals and minority groups. Two days later, singer Sinead O'Connor, whose song Nothing Compares 2 U is No. 1 on the Billboard charts, backed out of her guest appearance. Said O'Connor: "It shows disrespect to women that Saturday Night Live expected me to perform on the same show as Andrew Dice Clay...
...case, we hope that Mr. Lampley, since he meant "no disrespect to gays" but does not care that "together we (oppressed groups) stand, divided we fall," will please step aside. Those of us who think that pluralist efforts against any and all kinds of discrimination is not such a terrible thing would like to pass by. L. Tracee Whitely '88 Divinity School staff Carol DeFeciani FAS-Music Department staff
What the protest over Bush really displays is not disrespect but uncertainty. Women, after all, have always known they could be mothers. It is the opportunity to have full-strength, male-like careers that is relatively new and, therefore, tenuous. What makes it frightening is the assumption that they can play both roles well. Bush has acknowledged that being a woman was easier in her day. In a speech last year at Smith -- the school she dropped out of in 1944 at 19 to marry George Bush -- she told the students, "You have so many options that it must...
...mean no disrespect to gays, but I will not apologize for my unwillingness to parallel homosexuality to Blackness. Everytime I hear the analogy--on Donahue, in The Crimson, at dinner--I cringe. It is simply a fallacy. Discrimination against homosexuals centers around morality and sexuality. Discrimination against Blacks is racial and holds great historical significance in America...