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...will avoid the simplistic argument that everyone has feelings and thoughts worthy of respect, though it is an immensely valid one. We all owe respect and deference to the viewpoints of others on issues that we cannot understand through experience. Certainly, race, sex and class grievances still exist, and must be redressed on a structural level. And those who espouse racism, sexism, and classism must be confronted. But it is wrong to exact retribution from individuals solely on the basis of group membership...
...Italian bounce to some New York phrases, and it's true that white students at expensive Manhattan private schools are as likely as Harlem teenagers to shout "Yo!" when they come across a friend, but I think the basic structure and inflection of the language New Yorkers speak owe their greatest debt to Yiddish. The only purely New York word I can think of -- cockamamie -- sounds Yiddish, even thought it isn't. It means ridiculous or harebrained and is commonly used in such phrases as "another one of the mayor's cockamamie schemes...
...ashamed that this has happened at Harvard. The editor and staff of the Confidential Guide owe Professor Patterson a public apology, and they owe one to the rest of us in the Harvard community as well. Robert Nozick Porter Professor of Philosophy
...Coles, for example, have acquired skills they never imagined they'd need, like dodging creditors. Sometimes they put the electric bill in Jennifer's maiden name and the phone bill in Jeff's name, then move to another town and do the reverse. "We owe everybody money," says Jennifer. "It becomes, 'Do we want to pay back $400 we owe his parents -- they're not exactly wealthy people -- or do we pay the people who are chasing us the hardest...
...Chiles, the greater challenge is proving he can win a modern election without the tools of a modern campaign. "If we win with our $100 limit, we'll be free to look at all the problems Florida's been sweeping under the rug," Chiles says, "because we won't owe anybody anything." In 1990 that's a message so old-fashioned it's almost revolutionary...