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...among these men who defend their membership with arguments of male bonding and the like. Others try to belittle the role this affiliation plays in their lives. There is undoubtedly a spectrum of final club members, ranging from the gung-ho to the apathetic. This article is bound to offend many, although I am sure that any of you readers in final clubs feel yourselves to be an exception to these accusatory generalizations. You think to yourselves: I do not frequent the club. My purpose is not merely to pick up girls, but to hang out with the guys. There...
...have the security of knowing the people you live with. Floating increases your chances exponentially of being assigned to the Quad and of being the one person to complete a group of fifteen. I know someone who's planning to float. It seems he didn't want to offend any of the three groups that invited him to block with them. He's a brave soul. I wish him well...
Several administrators say they will not make any decision that will offend any part of the student body...
...even if the special counsel absolves him of wrongdoing, what may be more harmful to Gingrich and his party is the fully lawful success he has had in refining the G.O.P. fund-raising machine, a triumph that has every potential to offend reform-minded voters. By drawing tens of millions of dollars to the Republican campaign chests, Gingrich and the G.O.P. congressional leadership have kept Washington awestruck for months. Republicans came to town promising to decontaminate the political process, to rid it of the corrupting pursuit of "special-interest" money, a chase in which Democrats were the undisputed frontrunners...
...know how many people in our nation would confess such contemplations, which offend the elemental mandates of our cultural beliefs and our religions. No matter how severely some among us may condemn the parents of the poor, it has been an axiom of faith in the U.S. that once a child is born, all condemnations are to be set aside. If we now have chosen to betray this faith, what consequences will this have for our collective spirit, for our soul as a society...