Word: rejections
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...Option 3: Collapse. The up-and-coming choice, this is rapidly becoming the most likely outcome with each second that I continue to reject actions involving making a decision. Collapse has many of the humiliating fatal flaws involved in Option 2 above, including what seems like the quite real possibility of actually dropping dead. Its only merit is that it does not involve making a decision of any kind. I can just sit back, keep trying to ski up this nasty little hill, and it'll happen all by itself. Risky, embarrassing, potentially deadly - better to come up with...
...scramble through my four options again, and reject them all. Now hopelessly dazed, I enter the thick fog of the lower cerebellum, mindlessly repeating the physical motion of skiing. In situations like this, the reptile part of our brain takes the last instruction from the conscious mind and just goes with it until the heart stops beating. The rhythm of my skis on the snow is mesmerizing. I let go of any strategy, or any planning, or any long-term thoughts of any kind. There is just me and the hill and the sound of my skis...
...taken a few digs at the N.A.A.C.P.," he acknowledges. "Is the N.A. really for the A.C.P.?" Several years ago, he says, a series on racism began with the argument that in order to move on, the South had to reject racism. In a later installment, a writer took issue with that. Sullivan remembered the gist of the article being, "Why I will not condemn Southern racism: we've got nothing to be ashamed...
...economics class here at Harvard, Ec 10, is taught by a professor that in the same breath calls workers “dumb” and equations “beautiful,” as I heard him say in Economics 1420. But students shouldn’t just reject economics and the idea of the free market because of one professor, or because it seems so logical and free of emotion...
...light of The Crimson’s decision to publish this advertisement, a revisiting of the Horowitz decision is certainly warranted. In no way does the Ayeni advertisement justify the printing of Horowitz’s advertisement, but it does invalidate the ethical stance used to reject it. To give meaning to any ethical standards, they must be applied consistently...