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...they are, they’re not very good,’” Keret explained as he poked at his mostly uneaten slice of pecan pie (“it doesn’t taste very good,” he said softly so as not to offend the waitress, whom we still tipped generously...
...Guardian commentator Hugo Young was even more forthright, warning that "Guantanamo could be where America and Europe part company." He writes: "Secret hearings in military tribunals, of EU citizens who might face execution, will offend every European instinct. If that's what happens, even short of the execution factor, America can expect its own long drawn-out vengeance on al-Qaeda to be matched by a European public opinion increasingly roused against it. For, contrary to the myth of Anglo-America's unique respect for individual liberties, the continental ethic of human rights is even stronger...
...column was “terrible,” that “no girl wants to date you anymore,” and that “every athlete wants to rip your face off.” The excerpts have been cleaned up so as not to offend The Crimson’s family readership or those who value good spelling...
...down anything which is deeply offensive to what Shira D. Kieval ’04 points out, in a recent Crimson article, is a very small minority, then it should expand this policy to things besides Christmas trees. The American flags widely displayed should be taken down, lest they offend our foreign students (a large minority) or any Jehovah’s Witnesses among us (before you argue that the flag is supported by our government, let me remind you that Christmas is, too). The rainbow flags which have occasionally appeared in a few dining halls should not have been...
...Christmas trees in your room if you want,” Grace E. Bloodwell ’03 says. “It’s more important to me to not offend people than to have something I think is a neat thing...