Word: reject
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...recruit graduates of Harvard Law is supposed to change the policy on homosexuals in the military, a policy which was imposed by Congress and former President Clinton—it cannot be changed by any person in uniform. If professors were sincere about criticizing that policy, they would equally reject any official visit to the campus by President Clinton, who bears direct responsibility for that policy. But I sincerely doubt that that will ever happen. Their attitude is on a par with the feminists who roundly called for the immolation of all naval officers who were even in Las Vegas...
...while filming in the locations mentioned above, saying, “You’re making images of people who can’t say no to you, exoticizing people who are different and selling their images as a commodity.” Still, Moss does not reject the idea of a fruitful relationship between making art and working towards social justice. He says, “Artists are interested in finding ways to extract from the world and build something that has an aesthetic and political component.” But then he argues from all sides, noting that...
...only ones to reject this “market” argument. So does Yale’s chief investment officer, David Swenson, a Yale alumnus who earns roughly $1.1 million per year and manages an endowment fund that has outperformed Harvard’s in recent years. Recently, Swenson said, “the structure of Harvard Management is inherently unstable.” He also warned that, “You can’t pay managers astronomical amounts of money because it tears at the fabric of [a university...
...Education’s review of sixth grade social studies textbooks. The organizations said that the books should be revised to ensure that their depictions of Hinduism instilled pride among followers.But Witzel penned a letter—signed by 47 other scholars—imploring the Board to reject the edits, on the basis that they were “religious-political” and if accepted, would lead to “international educational scandal.”The petition was received one day before a scheduled Nov. 9 vote on the proposals by the Board, leading the group...
...visiting scholar Dayan Jayatilleka as he witnessed soldiers' donating blood for Tamils in the days after the tsunami. He said, "It was a magical moment. Then it was gone." Despite such pessimism, Sri Lanka's ethnic conflict could still be prevented from returning to civil war if everyone would reject the hollow argument that the Sinhalese and Tamils are fundamentally and irreconcilably different. That false division was based on the idea that the two groups could not live under a single administration because neither cared to learn the other's language. But today many people in the Tamil-dominated northern...