Word: overlooked
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...state). Ideal Date: My town has an annual Civil War reenactment that my father, mother and grand pappy participate in. I’ve always wanted to grab some soda pop from the apothecary and sit up on this big hill called Uncle Fielding’s Overlook and watch it with a girl. Best way for a girl to get your attention: Pop it and lock it, SON! Where to find you on a Saturday night: Manning the door at 44 JFK St. or hanging out at Tommy Doyle’s pretending it is still Brother Jimmy?...
...record, didn’t even get a whiff of the national playoffs. It is simplistic to reduce the Ivy powerhouses’ recent reclamations to the return of their Olympians, who missed last season to participate in the Winter Games in Turin, Italy. Yet it is impossible to overlook the importance of these stars, three on the Crimson’s side and four on the Big Green’s, in energizing two of the country’s best statistical offenses and elevating the play of those around them. Four of these talents dot the listing...
...season, we believe that now is the perfect time to reflect on the state of life at Harvard and to take note of what can be done better. At Harvard, many of us ultimately aim to change the world. In our quests for greatness, however, we tend to overlook the little things that, while perhaps not the banes of civilization, still sort of suck. We believe that these small and humble requests will profoundly alter life in Cambridge, and provide a foundation upon which a Harvard revolution can stand strong. Or, they’ll just be 10 fewer things...
...continue to advance his extreme socialist agenda, he could well have caused far more death and misery than the 3000 people Pinochet is responsible for murdering. Human rights groups have regularly denounced Pinochet’s torture and execution of his political opponents, yet the same organizations often overlook Cuba’s then routine torture of tens of thousands of its dissidents. Not to mention the atrocities committed in the Stalinist Soviet Union, Maoist China, or other socialist Latin American governments. It is important to remember that communism can be very dangerous—especially in South America, where...
...that those in the positions of power, dare I say, the white power elite, probably made those decisions. What is infuriating about this process is commentators’ tendency to generalize. First, there are many different subcultures that tend to be lumped under the Asian category. This tends to overlook the individual groups’ true progress in either education or the workplace. Second, idea of race, already a highly controversial issue, is further complicated by the acculturation and assimilation processes, not to mention the learning curve, experienced and endured by immigrant Asian groups. (However, this can be applied...