Word: rejections
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...here next to Brittany Spears, shit, Christina Aguillera better switch me chairs, so I can sit next to Carson Daly and Fred Durst and hear them argue over who she gave head to first,” and yet at the same time reject this culture, as he does in the poem annotated below. Despite being an outsider in the rap game, this poem hearkens back to the days of yore, the 1980s, with multiple references to ’80s pop culture and an era of violence and drunk driving. This work represents a true evolutionary leap in urban...
...interview too). It wasn’t a big deal, and the heads of the commission were friendly about it, assuring veterans that it was just a formality. But I didn’t bother answering the questions. I spent the first week of school getting rejected from seminars; I have the Crimson Turkey Shoot to look forward to in November. At this point, I don’t think I want to belong to any more clubs that could reject me as a member...
...first U.S. court decision to reject en masse traffic violations caught on camera, the ruling by Judge Ronald Styn has fueled debate over the growing use of the devices. Police departments swear, and studies indicate, that the robocams deter people from speeding and running red lights. A Lou Harris poll set for release this week finds that 69% of Americans support their use. Yet at least seven states have blocked proposals to implement them, and opponents--ranging from House majority leader Dick Armey to the American Civil Liberties Union--argue that the cameras violate privacy and place profit above public...
After standing room dried up, those of us still hoping to get in became a cancellation line, and we waited for people to reject tickets that we would gladly snatch up. Eventually the two people in front of me got in the theater—and then I lucked out. I was able to buy the canceled ticket of a very nice, very attractive actress, who co-stars on network television’s most critically-lauded drama; I also, then, had the opportunity to sit next to her in great house seats for the show and exchange...
...Africans on the Amistad, did lend their support to the abolitionist cause. But as an institution, Yale took money made from slavery, celebrated slaveholders and even pro-slavery politicians, and educated others to follow in those steps. While Ralph Waldo Emerson, Class of 1821, was telling students to reject outmoded ideas—like slavery—orators at Yale ridiculed him. In the wake of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which required Northerners to return fugitive slaves to their Southern owners, college speakers throughout the country argued fiercely in favor of the act. They criticized those who broke...