Word: regarded
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...American citizen, but first and last a Korean, I felt your article gave an extremely negative view of the Korean people. You quote a sociologist as saying that the Japanese regard Koreans as "Mortimer Snerds." Well, these assumed "superior Asians" have much to learn before making ignorant, prejudicial generalizations about Koreans...
...fact, O'Connor's dissent may reflect a sturdy commitment to states' rights, rather than any personal feelings about abortion. She cited earlier court decisions: " 'Scrupulous regard for the rightful independence of state governments' counsels against 'unnecessary interference by the federal courts.' " Professor Louis Michael Seidman of Washington's Georgetown University Law Center disagrees with Justice Lewis Powell that O'Connor's dissent is a veiled bid to overturn Roe vs. Wade. "I don't think it undermines Roe" Seidman says. "But we don't know what...
Other acts of violence have involved disputes over observance of Jewish law. The youths are more zealous in their beliefs and more pugnacious than their elders, who are often eager to urge them on. The new militants regard other Orthodox Jews as compromisers and secular Israelis as grievous sinners and abhor proselytizing by the small group of Christian missionaries in the country...
Historian David McCullough, author of The Great Bridge, at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.: "If you could pick the Brooklyn Bridge up and turn it over, you'd see stamped there MADE IN THE U.S.A. It was built by people who had a profound self-regard, which they expressed through their work. Two great points were made by John A. Roebling, the designer of the bridge. The first was 'that this greatest of bridges will not only be the greatest engineering work of the continent and of the age, it will be a work...
Ride has earned her colleagues' trust and high regard. Says Crippen, who as skipper had veto power over all the crew choices: "You like people who stay calm under duress. And Sally can do that. She hit all the squares." Her sister, who has become a Presbyterian minister, calls her a tough, no-nonsense competitor: "Sally will wipe you out every time." Adds Molly Tyson, an old Stanford roommate: "I've never seen Sally trip, on or off the court, physically or intellectually...