Word: faults
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unmitigated attitudes of those responsible for the "Conservative 'Coming Out' Dinner." In their letter published Dec. 9 they wrote, "To the extent that the Coming Out Dinner is mocking it is meant to mock only those who feign oppression within the Harvard community, which remains tolerant to a fault...
...forbidden from meeting on campus--as similar groups are banned from schools like Boston College and Notre Dame. Throughout the Houses and dorms, there are BGLT tutors and proctors ready to address students concerns. Quite frankly, I am glad that Harvard seems to be "tolerant to a fault...
...missed since the outcry over last year's Dinner--is that on National Coming Out Day the BGLT community is not concerned about coming out at Harvard. We are ever reminded that the world outside of Harvard Yard and outside of Cambridge is most certainly not "tolerant to a fault." Out there--in the world in which we will all be living in just a few short years--it's not a matter of worrying about a roommate moving out. It's a matter of discrimination and of violence. The names Matthew Shepherd and Rita Hester terrify us because...
...powers of inoculation, which have served him well ever since. He didn't have to worry about critics raising the question of his womanizing and the collapse of his first marriage because McCain had said flat out, as he does to this day, that these failures were his fault. He instructed his adviser Smith not to constantly harp on the Story. "He wasn't comfortable exploiting it," Smith recalls. "'Whatever you do, be tasteful,' he would say. 'I don't want to be the POW candidate. I want to be John McCain from Arizona.'" Yet he was prepared to roll...
...never had a gambling problem and who still regularly bets on horse racing, has succeeded in transforming his case into a sentimental cause, tapping into our national willingness to forgive errant public figures. Think of Bill Clinton, Marion Barry and even fellow baseballer Darryl Strawberry, who all admitted fault, showed contrition and were forgiven. The difference is Pete Rose wants back into baseball on his terms. This is one instance where his greatest traits, his drive, hustle and never-say-die determination, may be the very characteristics preventing him from providing what baseball, its fans and Pete himself need most...