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...that there is nothing—nothing—wrong, or even abnormal, about saying that African-American music is a nice segue into a discussion of African-American language. I am completely baffled, to be honest, that anyone could think otherwise. It wasn’t a racist remark, and it wasn’t, for that matter, a light-hearted joke—it was a perfectly appropriate and unremarkable comment...
...several days last week before the politicians turned their blood up to boil is also a bit suspicious. Even hair-trigger moralizers like Senators Joe Lieberman and John McCain were slow this time. The President's deliberations were exceptionally deliberate. On Days 5 and 6 after Lott's remarks, the White House shrugged the matter off. On Day 7, Bush declared that Lott's remarks were "offensive." It is hard to understand how anyone can take a week to take offense at a racist remark. A natural suspicion is that the President and the other politicians aren't really...
...coming back in,” yelped one of the two BC fans that filled out the depleted ranks of the student section. Maybe Prasse-Freeman heard the catcall—the gym, only half-filled, was that quiet. Silent enough, in fact, to cause Sullivan to remark to his team during a timeout, “the atmosphere’s dead around here...
...Tabitha G. Filney ’02 just can’t keep the fellas away. “Heh!” commented Filney. “I like big Irish guys.” Upon hearing the remark, boyfriend Aaron S. Chang ’01 boasted, “You bet she does. Wait a minute...SLUT...
...skewer his fellow Americans. Bryson's first book, a 1989 exploration of small-town U.S.A. called The Lost Continent, included the following comment about a gaggle of pushy pensioners: "[I was] comforted by the thought that soon they would be dead." One reviewer was so outraged by the remark that he recommended that Bryson seek psychiatric help...