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...even this presumptuous slogan is not as inappropriate as the "Peculiar Institution" campaign. Last year, the Coalition leaders demonstrated both their insolence and their stupidity when they compared the "plight" of minority students at Harvard to the unspeakable horrors of slavery. To even mention the two in the same breath is to trivialize the experiences of the African-Americans who suffered and died under slavery...
...dying cancer patient undergoing emergency treatment in a Riverside, California, hospital was suspected of emitting toxic fumes that caused six doctors and nurses to become violently ill. Witnesses said the patient's blood contained mysterious white and yellow crystals that reeked of ammonia, and that her body had a peculiar "film." Pending an autopsy report, experts were stumped for an explanation...
House choices say a lot about a first-year's political views. The bleeding-hearts among us seem to have a peculiar attraction for Adams House; why is it that those who claim to trouble themselves with the fate of the downtrodden also scramble claw their way into the most luxurious dormitory on campus...
...Ames will soon be off to the basement of the Marion penitentiary, and well it should be. There he will join Jonathan Pollard, and the two of them can ponder their peculiar predicament--suffering a deserved fate, while the countries that put them up to their crimes continue to receive copious American aid. It may sound strange, but its the way of the world...
...envelope was peculiar--it had no return address and the label was handwritten; it was metered from New York's Kennedy Airport, and did not look professional," said Harlow...