Word: insults
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...first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.” I’m sure Senator Biden meant it as a compliment; however, I—along with many other blacks—took it as an insult. Many whites are comfortable with Barack Obama because they don’t see him in the same way that they still see a majority of black people in America. Obama doesn’t scare white people. The clean, articulate, and bright guy whom Americans are impressed with is the exact opposite...
...first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.” I’m sure Senator Biden meant it as a compliment; however, I—along with many other blacks—took it as an insult. Many whites are comfortable with Barack Obama because they don’t see him in the same way that they still see a majority of black people in America...
Added to the injury of yet another setback in what has become the Ivy League’s most hostile environment, the Crimson (10-14, 3-7 Ivy) had to endure the insult of the Ivy League championship trophy being presented at halftime to Yale’s football team, which split the league title with Princeton. The crowd roared when Bulldogs football coach Jack Siedlecki announced that the real reason the team was there was to watch Yale beat Harvard again—an allusion to his squad’s 34-13 win in Cambridge this past November?...
...should it be an insult? Plastic surgery may be self-indulgent. It may reflect poor priorities. But it is also essentially American. The U.S. is the country of self-invention, of new names, new faces and new starts--the land of plasticity. To be American is to refuse to be limited by the circumstances of your birth--ethnic, economic or genetic...
...rocky start. When Guyatt began championing it back in the 1990s, he called it "scientific medicine," but he learned quickly that if you want to start a revolution, it helps to pick the right slogan. Many of his colleagues were outraged by the implied insult to their expertise. So he quickly went with "evidence-based," and tempers cooled...