Word: joking
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...computer with Internet capability at home or school. There they may find that hate groups are also plugging in and logging on. Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center says the number of "hate sites" on the Internet--ranging from the Aryan Dating Page to the Nigger Joke Center--has doubled in the past eight months and stands at more than 500. "Lunatic fringe does not translate into lack of sophistication," says Cooper. "The Web has given an unprecedented opportunity to the lunatic fringe of racists to market their ideas to young people...
...grape referendum has been taken as a joke," said Sergio J. Campos '00, chair of the Latino Political Committee. "With this vigil I want to show that this is a serious matter...
...boost his self-esteem, stood in the Yard and yelled his name, which was Rhineheart. Little remembers that "in my day, students would claim to hear him yelling. Of course, as soon as they heard the yelling they would start yelling, too, so it was sort of a joke." Little's classmate, Dean Burriss Young '55, is a veritable font of Harvard ghost lore and a deliberately non-skeptical one at that. Young remembers hearing the ghosts of University Hall. He says, "no one has heard it since 'the bust.'" (The "bust" refers to the recapture of the building after...
...Core Curriculum, the basis for the liberal education at Harvard College, is a stultifying joke. In theory, the Core does provide for well-rounded students: as President A. Lawrence Lowell, class of 1877, said, we should all know a little something about everything, or at least a little something about how to approach everything. However, the lack of flexibility in the present program herds too many students (sometimes more than 900) into specific courses resulting in class overcrowding, a prescribed scope of study within a subject area and often the disinterest and disdain of students. If Harvard were to move...
...accused of conducting an 18-year campaign of terror as the Unabomber walks to his seat. Even the prosecutors stop shuffling their papers to sneak a glance. But anyone expecting the self-confident strut of a killer who once branded his victims "dumb" and the FBI "a joke" will be disappointed. Ted Kaczynski's courtroom demeanor is almost timid. From the way he sits in his chair, hands folded, to the deferential behavior he shows his attorneys, he moves with the exaggerated politeness of a guest who doesn't quite know how to act in someone else's home...