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Like any successful coach, Harvard's Carole Kleinfelder knows this well. Though her women's lacrosse team has had the luck (knock on wood) to coast through the season relatively injury-free, it enters the NCAA national Championships this weekend in Bethlehem, Penn. with a slightly more odious, unshakable monkey on its back: academics...
...members' elitism, of course, is not as odious as Lowell's. This is not the early 20th century, and I'm certainly not the impoverished, socially excluded newspaper hack. We're all students at a top college with a wide array of choices. Still, we have very different ways of looking at the world...
Clinton's muscularity has its limits. He speaks about using military force to protect citizens from the repressive acts of their rulers, but not in China, which is presumably too powerful for such an intrusion into its internal affairs -- an accommodation to reality that could cause other odious dictators to acquire even more weaponry as a hedge against Clinton's wrath...
Being a Zionist, I was upset that some one else had decided to define my political ideology for me. Being an anti-racist, I was upset that someone had attributed an odious mindset like racism to me. I called after them and asked if we could discuss what was on the sheet...
...Romanov family. From 1917 until 1991 it was ruled, always disastrously, by the Communist Party. Bringing back the Romanovs now would certainly be poetic justice. As the historian Richard Pipes wrote, the 1918 massacre by communists of the last Czar, Nicholas II, and his family * was "uniquely odious . . . a prelude to 20th century mass murder." Now that communism has been outlawed, who better to help replace it than the relatives of its first victims...