Word: offends
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...based on the anticipated cost of police protection. The permit fee was imposed after a series of costly civil rights marches. Said Blackmun, again ! writing for the majority: "Speech cannot be financially burdened, any more than it can be punished or banned, simply because it might offend a hostile mob." Still to come before the end of the term: 14 decisions, involving such major issues as abortion, prayer in the schools and cigarette-industry liability...
...current indulgences. There is a word for the profession of virtue accompanied by practice of vice: hypocrisy. The usual complaint in democracies is that the politicians are hypocrites. The charge is old, common and true. But the equally valid charge, less often made so as not to offend, is that the people are hypocrites...
Crimson reporters, by seeking inflammatory comments, have instigated and exacerbated tensions among ethnic groups, especially between Blacks and Jews. In the past, The Crimson has featured the chair of Hillel conjecturing as to whether or not he thought BSA intended to offend Jews by inviting speakers perceived by some as being "anti-Semitic." One student leader even mentioned at a recent Freshman Black Table (FBT)-Crimson once had asked him to comment on BSA President Art Hall's leadership...
Group A invites a speaker that some members of Group B consider offensive; people quickly assume Group A deliberately plans to offend Group B. And the individuals directly involved stop talking to each other and build psychological walls...
Ignatiev--who declined to comment on his ownreligious beliefs--said yesterday that hiscomments were not intended to offend anyone...