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Perhaps the most memorable aspect of “The Foreigner” is how it addresses sensitive issues, maintaining a chuckling audience amidst its somewhat politically incorrect nature. It invites its audience to ruminate over themes of tolerance, self-discovery, connection and community as it humorously plays off of the Southerner stereotype...
...distress. Other schools have committed more serious e-mail errors, in some cases sending mistaken letters of acceptance to students whom they had no intention of letting in. Most of the schools have simply admitted to their mistakes, apologized for the grievances they might have caused, and rescinded the incorrect messages of acceptance or rejection. For instance, in 2004 the University of California-Davis sent acceptance e-mails to 90 transfer applicants who were actually rejected by the admissions board. Despite the momentary elation it might have brought to these students, the college simply apologized and encouraged them...
...Cambridge Police Department (CPD) community alert on one side, and on the other, criticized the HUPD advisory for containing “multiple errors”. According to the flyer, the advisory did not include the first three digits of the car’s license number, cited an incorrect year for the Honda sedan, and failed to mention the car had tinted windows...
...with the war?s fury concentrated primarily in three busy provinces, "the idea that all of Iraq is experiencing widespread violence is incorrect," he added. But after spending close to $250 billion, losing the lives of more than 2,300 U.S. troops, and three years of bloody effort, there?s still no sign of winning. Indeed, Iraq may yet show a war can be won without actually winning it. GIs will go home once the Iraqis prove they can take over the fight. And that?s not necessarily with the enemy being defeated. As long...
...current restriction is “a needlessly stigmatizing ban that doesn’t make sense.” Thoreson criticized the ban for the message it sends. “I think the ban categorically associates gay and bisexual men with promiscuity and danger, which is incorrect, if not actually malicious,” he wrote. “These sorts of reactionary policies promote prejudice instead of actually taking steps to make the process safe.” The BGLTSA has opposed the current policy for years, according to Thoreson. In the past, the student group...