Word: offenders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...difficult to accept an exhortation to "pass up the opportunity to offend" from the author of "Developing the Student Body." This editorial about physical education began with this ever-so tactful line: "There are too many fat students at Harvard." It is difficult to think of a better example of a line designed to incite or upset the students body. Clearly Cucci does not live up to his own code...
...editorialist's goals are to be read and to make people think about why they hold the beliefs they do. We may often say things which upset or offend people. We should have no regrets because we are simply saying what we believe--such is our right in a democracy and intellectual community. If we get a strong response and many letters, we have done our job. By forcing people to put their principles into writing, we have made them think about and perhaps even reconsider their values...
...insults and accusations usually do not really advance one's position. Instead, such hostility alienates friends and foes alike. So Why not pass up the opportunity to offend? We'll conserve a great deal of energy and avoid weakening our own positions...
Higonnet said that he had not meant to shock his audience. "I went out of my way not to offend anybody...
...Russian people have spoken, it is time to change our attitude to Russia's foreign policy too. During the fight to the , finish between the Soviet-era Congress and Yeltsin, it made sense for the U.S. to back him to the hilt. That meant bending over backward not to offend Russian nationalism: leaning hard on Ukraine to disarm; raising no fuss when Russian troops intervened in Georgia, Tajikistan and Moldova; keeping the East Europeans out of NATO...