Word: oppressing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...National Battered Women's Law Project in New York City. "A man is criticized by being told he's acting like a woman -- a 'pussy' -- to humiliate him and make him tougher," she says. "That often translates into seeing women as not being important and therefore easier to oppress...
...took for granted, even, that people wouldsee this as something with a specific rationalebehind it," Kilson adds. "It just seemednatural--it's not as if it were a new curricularinvention created solely to oppress Blacks...
Elie G. Kaunfer 95, chair of Harvard Radcliffe Hillel, said yesterday, "It is totally absurd to assert that the goal of Hillel is to oppress any group of people.. and it's people like professor Martin who unnecessarily aggravate Black-Jewish relations." Kaunfer is senior editor of the Crimson...
...though, that writers have largely overlooked: its potential for laughs. The most obvious exception to that rule is Woody Allen in Sleeper. The high point of the film comes when Allen's character kidnaps the severed nose of a Big Brother-like dictator before it can be cloned to oppress the world once more, and holds it hostage at gunpoint. It's hard, though intriguing, to imagine what ethicists would do with that...
More worrisome is the possibility of further Serbian aggression provoking wider conflict. Serbs loathe, and oppress, the ethnic Albanians of Kosovo province, which is also home to 209,000 Serbs; some analysts predict that the Albanians there will rebel or that Belgrade will try to drive them out as soon as the Bosnian question is settled. Either eventuality could spur Albania to intervene. Hungary has massed troops at its southern border to protect 385,000 ethnic Hungarians in the Serbian province of Vojvodina. A Serbian effort to annex parts of Macedonia could prompt a response by Russia, Bulgaria or even...