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After receiving military training in Israel in the late 1970s, Hall traveled to Lebanon, El Salvador, southern Africa and Nicaragua. Hall, however, does not view himself as a mercenary. "He calls himself a volunteer counterterrorist," says Hussman. "He would consider it an insult to take money for himself." There have been personal battles as well. Hall has spent time in the mental health unit of a hospital, fought a drug problem and been through three divorces. He has apparently been a lone operator since his expulsion from C.M.A...
Eisert's membership in a final club is an insult to women undergraduates and to the 90 percent of the student body that the clubs deem unworthy of membership. Final clubs perpetrate an attitude that encourages members to treat the rest of the world as second class citizens--to make them enter the clubs through side doors, to bar them from certain rooms, to devalue and look down upon them...
...harsh enough insult. When South African State President P.W. Botha paid a "private visit" to France last week, he was greeted at Orly Airport not by Premier Jacques Chirac, as diplomatic practice would normally dictate, but by the Foreign Ministry's chief of protocol. Chirac explained the snub by saying that any contact with Botha "would be considered a breach of solidarity with our African friends...
Mount Holyoke senior Michele Mitchell said a University of Massachusetts student hurled a racial insult at her and shoved her away from a copier at a university library the week after the ball game...
Second, Heiskell's ill-considered rebuff preempted a constructive response on the part of the Corporation. And finally, his remark that the Corporation would not "meet with anybody who wants to meet" not only was an insult to the groups that requested a meeting--among them the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee, the Undergraduate Council, the Radcliffe Union of Students and the Endowment for Divestiture--but also indicates how little interest the Corporation has in input from the community...