Word: insult
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...easier) antagonized hell out of most of the people with whom they sat. Those who tolerated their third person conversations were usually alienated by the way Beach and Richards occasionally tended to switch their conversation into Spanish, and the rest of them were alienated by Richards's tendency to insult anyone he thought was a rich preppie future fascist. Beach found that it all cut down on the number of people to whom he had to say hello on the street...
Harvard does not insult the devout as much as it assaults religion itself, and Gomes takes "the life of the mind" seriously. But by his own definition, a good preacher "is not apologetic about his role as a Christian in what is easily called a post-Christian age." Harvard offers an additional insidious pitfall: "You must deal with power," Gomes says. "Harvard is full of powerful people, but you must not be seduced or corrupted by power. You walk a very tight rope...
...Insult and Injury...
...insult to injury, Yale is the Ivy League's cellar-dweller, along with Brown. With a win tonight, Harvard would be the Ivy champion...
...statement that has been made recently on the Carbondale, Ill., campus with which everyone can agree. The event that Derge referred to: as a result of a budget cut, the university fired 104 faculty and staff members and then, in a move that at first glance seemed to add insult to injury, immediately filed a class-action suit against six of the dismissed teachers...