Word: hack
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...mildly, highly schematic. The 7 Habits begat the three primary laws of love, which are not to be confused with the four primary laws of life. There are four unique human gifts and three common mistakes and...but who's counting? A reader who can hack through this verbiage will realize soon enough that it serves only to obscure old-fashioned notions that have sustained families since they first wandered out of the Serengeti. Think before you speak. Plan ahead. Try to see the other guy's point of view. Tell the truth. If you can't say anything nice...
None of this really surprised Hack. The brother of a Yale grad, he knew the campus was no yeshiva. So he proposed a simple solution: live off campus. Trouble is, like many private colleges, Yale requires frosh to live in those steamy dorms. Administrators say dorms are a crucial part of the education; students learn to cope with one another's differences. "At Yale," says Dean Richard Brodhead, "students live and learn together...
What to do when one student's viewpoint (in this case, Hack's strict ideas about sexual modesty) conflicts with the university's desire to toss all views into an educational blender? Unlike students of yesteryear, who pushed for diversity with scruffy demonstrations on behalf of minorities, Hack and four other Orthodox Jews have chosen a thoroughly contemporary method of attack: mount a p.r. campaign...
...Hack and the others, snappily calling themselves the Yale Five, are threatening to sue Yale for discriminating against them on the basis of their religion. In this case, the form of the discrimination seems to be...temptation, temptation everywhere! There's a precedent at a public school: last year, in a little-noticed local ruling, a judge said the University of Nebraska had to allow Douglas Rader, a devout Christian fretting over the dorms' laxity, to live off campus. The Nebraska case was the first of its kind...
...Yale case will proceed as quietly. Yale has weathered several controversies in the past few years, most recently the contretemps over its refusal of $5 million to fund programs for gay students. And last week the Yale Five created something of a media juggernaut to get its message out. Hack wrote an op-ed for the New York Times, and the students went on TV and radio. "If you need my help," Harvard legal star Alan Dershowitz gushed on Court TV, "you can count...