Word: rejection
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...Thomas is a near-total political creation, and the Senate should reject him. Not because he's a conservative, as the liberal interest groups hope, but because he's not as qualified as he should be. Obviously his rejection wouldn't prompt Bush to name a moderate. But maybe he would pick someone with more experience...
When the Village Voice was offered a free-lance article last month that purported to expose the homosexuality of a high Pentagon official, editors of the radical New York City weekly decided to reject the piece as an unwarranted invasion of privacy. Last week the same editors permitted a Voice columnist to summarize the allegations, complete with the official's name. The rationale for the turnaround: the man's identity had been so widely circulated by other news organizations that continued restraint would have been "a futile exercise...
Even those who reject Douglas' perspective might reasonably conclude that the long war against the busybodies has to be won -- if it is to be won -- a skirmish at a time, tiny battles at the perimeter of individual privacy and choice. One hero in this ongoing conflict is Teresa Fischette, 38, a ticket agent for Continental Airlines at Boston's Logan International Airport. Eager to establish a new image for its ground personnel, the carrier last May decreed that its female ticket agents must wear makeup. Fischette refused, was fired, but was then offered a job where she would...
...increasingly hard to get students to believe socialism will ever provide them with the standard of living they want. "They complain about a lack of stylish clothes," says Blanca Munster Infante, 30, a professor of Marxism at one of Havana's advanced polytechnic institutes. "They don't reject socialism, but they are pessimistic about making it work. They are disillusioned...
...identify with our victimization. It is one thing to be victimized; it is another to make an identity out of it. I am not willing to be a boy because I am inferior, and I am not going to be a boy because I am a victim. I reject both avenues to being a boy. The one thing a white liberal can never do with a black is be honest and tell him what he tells his own children...