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After I switched from news to sports my sophomore year, I learned pretty quickly that honesty and good wit may win you the respect of other journalists, but they bring you the ire of just about everyone else. And at a school with such a tightly knit (some would say incestuous) athletic program, that's a lot of enemies who know you by name and nothing else...
...Dellums' military posture certainly hasn't hurt him in his district, which he last won by 72% of the vote. That is partly because he succeeded Aspin as Armed Services Committee chairman and voters believed he would be in a position to prevent any of the Pentagon's ire from hitting close to home. "He's always been antimilitary, but right now we're looking at him as one of our last hopes to save the installation," says Mark Hutchings, a fire inspector at the Mare Island Naval Complex shipyard in Vallejo...
...this outspoken academic certainly isn't the only public figure to raise students' ire recently. In February, D. Khallid Muhammad, who appeared at a conference sponsored by the African American Cultural Society, made inflammatory statements about gays, Jews, whites, and Black Harvard faculty members. And last year, Leonard Jeffries, a City University of New York professor known for his racist views, was invited to speak in Sanders Theatre...
That a particular group of Americans may be disproportionately affected by Clinton's plan raises the ire of many Americans. It's weirdly interesting to note that sacrifice, the "extreme measures" needed to rectify a fiscal problem, must be perceived as fair and equal treatment of all people. In Democracy in America, Tocqueville wrote that the Americans value their equality more than anything else; Americans would sooner be treated equally as slaves than they would tolerate any disparity in the way in which they are treated by their government...
Much of Tracy's ire was directed at his counterpart in the Catamount net, sophomore Christian Soucy, the more heralded of two excellent netminders...