Word: offenders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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PLAY FOR KEEPS After nearly a year in office, Clinton has been weakened by a desire to please everyone and offend no one. But as he scrounged for votes, he crossed a new psychological threshold. When Congressman Bob Torricelli of New Jersey came out against the pact, Clinton fired a rocket his way, penning an acidic message in the margin of a speech Torricelli gave last year in support of free trade: "This was written by a man who cared." When Torricelli telephoned later to discuss the note, Clinton refused to take the call...
...difference between a Harvard conversation on racism and conversations in the "real world" is that the former is often a careful, non-offensive one, while the latter are filled with brutal honesty. Paradoxically, racists who do not care whom they offend, can talk more openly about hatred between ethnicities than the individual who is attempting to see all sides of the issues. And people who are confronted by racism everyday are not embarrassed talking about something which concerns their most basic relationships with other people...
...price for this privilege is that we will come across opinions which we disagree with. Every now and then, something is bound to offend us. But we can't throw out two hundred years of Constitutional history every time an advertisement makes you a bit squeamish. There is no belief so repulsive, no opinion so damaging to society that freedom of speech should ever be abridged...
...brave words mask major weaknesses in the pro-democracy movement. International oil customers, hesitant to offend an influential supplier or harm their own recession-plagued economies, are not likely to embargo Nigerian crude. More fundamentally, democracy leaders have been unable to overcome the ethnic rivalries that have stood in the way of a true sense of Nigerian nationhood since its creation. Support is strong in the Yoruba-dominated southwest and almost nil in other parts of the country...
...right, all right -- it wasn't that insensitive! It was simply a matter of seizing seasonal imagery to make an obvious point: some of us seem to be letting ourselves go . . . just a touch, say . . . perhaps an almost imperceptible touch. No, that's bending backwards not to offend. Put it in the hands of, say, a headline writer for a British tabloid...