Word: outcaste
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...novel, Sazzae, Jocelyn Morin ’87 writes of Shintaro, a young buraku man turned pop star. Her focus on the untouchables of Japanese culture interestingly echoes her own position as an author—Morin’s novel is self-published, and there is no greater outcast in the literary world than the self-published writer. Certainly, it is unusual for The Crimson to review a book printed by iUniverse.com, which sends to press virtually any manuscript for a tiny fee. Without a doubt, the only reason it is here is because the author is a graduate...
...just as her memo, released anew and in full by congressional investigators, covered front pages across the country. Her lawyer says there were no retaliations by those colleagues still around these days; a source close to her, though, told the LA Times that Watkins was made to feel "an outcast." Her husband called her a "team player" and said he was proud...
...shady 26-year-olds hitting on those 14-year-old debutante prima donnas. You will find the high school kids who don’t get invited to parties, and so go to the place where you don’t need an invitation. You will find these outcast high-schoolers’ inverse: The college kids who were the ones throwing the invitation-only parties in high school and are now too cool for lowly open-house parties. You will find, in short, an amalgam of local youth whose variety is only surpassed by its vibrancy...
...have had a less spiritual and more practical purpose to his mission: supplying bin Laden with cash for the war in Afghanistan. Whether he is a cleric or a fighter, his presence is an embarrassment for the Saudi monarchy, which has long sought to portray bin Laden as an outcast without religious followers in the kingdom. Intelligence officials say that pinpointing the guest's identity and his relationship to bin Laden could yield valuable clues to al-Qaeda's worldwide network as well as its influence inside Saudi Arabia...
...West, I felt like a loner and an outcast--a feeling that began when my mother died when I was 14 and when, shortly afterward, I was ripped from my home in New Orleans because my father was transferred to Richardson, Texas. That sense of alienation intensified over the years as I moved to California to work my way through college and then stayed on. At first I loved the freedom and radical spirit of the place. But as the years passed, I became bitter about not going home. I really didn't fit in with my liberal friends...