Word: preciousness
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...There’s definitely the unique experience to have people that you can identify with in a certain way...because it’s such a minority in a minority, it’s something that’s really rare and precious for those of us that are minorities within minorities...
...lobbying effort by the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance, some of whose members feel uncomfortable living with students of the same sex. Yet, instead of taking aim with practical language to ameliorate the insecurities of a few, the UC childishly invokes the rights of man and the precious term “heteronormative,” that subtle, lurking form of homophobia by which it is institutionally assumed that most people are straight.Surely, students are overwhelmingly in favor of co-ed housing. But, frankly, why should their opinions really matter? With each matriculating freshman class, I am struck...
...After a precious pause following Katrina, New Orleans appears to have returned to its 2004 murder rate, according to TIME's estimate. In 2004, the last full year before the hurricane, there were 56 murders for every 100,000 people, according to the FBI. That was about eight times the murder rate in New York City. Today, there are far fewer people in New Orleans, and so fewer dead bodies in absolute numbers. But in February, seven people were murdered. The tally this month, at four murders so far, looks headed in a similar direction. At this rate, 54 people...
...precious few weeks, the Harvard and Radcliffe rowing teams begin another illustrious season, one full of expectations and built upon past achievement...
...population ,and small businesses are not willing to deal with the extra costs of huge marginal tax rates, compensation, and other labor costs. The bill might be incompatible with post-World War II standards, but just like Germany and Italy, France has to adapt in order to save its precious safety net. If reforms do not pass, the whole European project is at stake. This is about adaptation or extinction. In 1968, amidst the barricades that inspired Jean Paul Sartre, ideals rotted because of extremism and ideological stagnation. Beautiful dreams turned into anarchism, burning books, and Jacobin violence. Today, Michel...