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...more importantly, it seems, we didn’t do it because the Chinese had our people in custody, and we wanted to get them home—at almost any cost. So we said we were sorry, and sent our regrets, and generally acted meek and mild and mollifying, and lo, none of our airmen were hurt, and all of them were returned intact to the flag-hung confines of Whidbey Island. And deep in the White House bunker, Dubya’s pollsters rejoiced...
...turmoil of the past few years has made all of Harvard's success seem distant. How could the meek Crimson, a school that even this year lost at Union, ever have competed with the Michigans and Minnesotas of the world...
Fong captures the worst stereotypes of Asians (the meek male, the erotic female), which are neither correct, interesting or novel. It adds absolutely nothing to the discussion. Fong does complete disservice to multiculturalism. If his point is against self-segregation, he could write a more balanced piece without much effort. There are more Asian students at Harvard who assimilate into the larger community than those who do not, and the tendency to identify with one's own ethnic group holds true for every single ethnic group, including Caucasians, African-Americans, Hispanics, Russians, Jews and Arabs. What's wrong with that...
...killing two at his Santee, Calif., high school, he dropped his gun and waited for the police, who approached the 15-year-old freshman with understandable caution. "It's just me," he murmured to an officer who asked if there were any other shooters. With this incongruously meek surrender, Williams was taken into custody. Wednesday, he was charged with two counts of murder...
...held liable for failing to help students like Anita Rutnam. A key issue is whether school administrations are expected to act in loco parentis. Unlike a parent-child relationship, "there is no special relationship between university officials and a student that imposes duty [to protect students]," contends Jerry Meek, a Dallas-based malpractice lawyer. Without proving that such a duty to students exists, it will be difficult for any plaintiff to claim successfully that it was breached...