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...Resent him to the bone...
...William Rand, the turmoil of the Late 60s have caused problems of the opposite nature--though to a far lesser extent. Where Barber must deal with alumni who still resent Harvard's conservatism during that era, Rand must face classmates who balk at Harvard's alleged liberalism. "Some people were upset when the University got rid of its military programs--though they were bucking under to pressure. Some others thought Harvard had a communist element stirring then...
...recalls they Eleanor Holmes Norton were when she was one of two women graduating from Stanford University's law school in 1949 ("It was a bumper crop that year"). Nor do law firms now tell female applicants that "we just don't hire women; the secretaries might resent it," as one informed Orinda Evans, 38, now a federal district judge in Georgia, as recently as 1968. In addition, women no longer restrict themselves to the genteel specializations of real estate and probate law, as they did when former Watergate Prosecutor Jill Wine Banks finished Columbia Law School...
...total population of 975,000. (Of the rest, 26% are Caucasian, 25% are of Japanese stock and the balance Filipino, Chinese and Korean, among other ethnic groups). Poorly educated and relegated for the most part to the lower rungs of the economic ladder, the Hawaiians and part-Hawaiians resent the immigrants, or malihinis, for dominating the political and commercial landscape of the lands that once belonged to them. Says Hawaiian Activist A. Leiomalama Solomon: "They don't tell us to get to the back of the bus. They just make it more difficult...
Mostly, the Green Berets resent the way their mission has been portrayed back home, where the legacies of Viet Nam have prompted apprehensions about possible American involvement with another unpopular and perhaps doomed regime. "What hurts is the lack of support from the people in the U.S.," says one stocky Viet Nam veteran. "They see us as hit men-macho guys with knives in our mouths and grenades in each hand, looking for someone to kill. That's not what we were trained...