Word: rejection
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...real loser seems to be that perpetual kinglet, Prince Charles, and here again it's hard to muster much sympathy. By his own account, he lacked the courage to reject a loveless marriage; once in it, he lacked the discipline or grace to try to make it work. Instead of rebelling against his mother and the institution she represents, he seems to have turned his bitterness against his hapless bride. So the revenge Di now seeks fits all too well. If she succeeds in her campaign to have the crown bypass him and go directly from Queen Elizabeth to young...
...trying to belittle or reject students' enjoyment of their own religious lives. They can place whatever religious emblems they like in their own rooms; these spaces have been designated completely private. They can also worship in the many locations the University provides. But public areas at the University must not be used for religious decorations if we are to maintain our integrity as a secular community...
...OFFENDS ME THAT DOLE (AND CLINton too, for that matter) wants to be President so badly that he has placed more faith in the ''pros'' than in himself. It is my hope that voters will reject any candidate who chooses to abandon his or her past and trash core beliefs in the hope of winning an election. THOMAS CARSON Simsbury, Connecticut Via E-mail...
While we welcome lively debate, we cannot but reject and condemn race baiting and other efforts to belittle, stigmatize, and/or de-legitimize persons whether because of race or because of gender, ethnicity or sexual orientation. As no doubt all members of this community demand, we simply expect that debate, about whatever subject, adhere to standards of intellectual honesty and factual accuracy. It is certainly ironic that those persons who champion the cause of standards the loudest are often the ones who make this expectation the most precarious...
...issue of Core Curriculum reform, first-years hold a unique perspective and interest. Our class stands to lose or benefit the most from current decisions. And combined with our broad outlook upon academic policy--one unbiased by previous and often negative experiences with the Core--it demands that we reject the ubiquitous resignation which characterizes the upperclasses, and voice our opposition to what clearly is an institution restrictive to our academic development...