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...employed some nice, twisted logic to justify my presence. I figured that the kids could look at me and say, "Well, if he can do these dances, then certainly I can do it. I mean, I can't look any dumber than he looks." I fancied myself a martyr of sorts--letting myself look bad to boost the self-esteem of the young people of Cambridge...

Author: By Jason M. Solomon, | Title: Forget Finding the Niche; Be king of The Comp | 7/3/1992 | See Source »

...mayor (producer Rich Lupo) wants to turn it into a mall. Fascist-for-President Robert Burgess (Bob Owczarek) wants to make a martyr of the owner, who happens to be his son. And a group of stooge-like European terrorists just want to blow...

Author: By Peter D. Pinch, | Title: Hedonism At the Heartbreak Hotel | 4/2/1992 | See Source »

...merely luring another Black professor to HLS would cover up the real source of the diversity dilemma: not hiring discrepancies in adulthood, but educational ones in childhood. All that Bell and CCR are doing now is diverting attention away from more important civil rights issues. Bell a civil rights martyr...

Author: By Jendi B. Reiter, | Title: Bell's Twisted Logic | 3/14/1992 | See Source »

Mcerwa's hero is Steve Biko, the black nationalist leader whose 1977 death in police custody turned him into the country's most celebrated black martyr. At 12 Mcerwa joined the 1976 Soweto uprising, the landmark outbreak of racial violence in which more than 100 blacks were killed. As he ran home after being teargassed, an older student who had been his political mentor was gunned down by the police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: Extremes in Black and White | 3/9/1992 | See Source »

...Israel halts settlements due to U.S. pressure, its government will lose face for having bowed to coercion. Yet if Bush decides to loan Israel money with no strings attached, he will do it in a way that makes him look like a martyr to Jewish lobbyists. We can hardly expect the Arab nations to respect Israel's right to exist when we implicitly refuse to recognize it ourselves...

Author: By Jendi B. Reiter, | Title: Cheating on a Friend | 3/4/1992 | See Source »

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