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...investigations. Almost all of these are closed without a suspect being named, much less a prosecution being sought. Since the results tend to be inconclusive, FBI and Justice Department officials often deride the exercise as a distraction from more vital antiterrorism and counterintelligence work. Some FBI agents say they resent investigating and intimidating other government employees. Former Attorney General Janet Reno summed up the prevailing view when she told Congress in 2000, "Criminal prosecution is not the most effective way to address the leak problem...
...chose him as their hero, those at RCA who don't like him or his music are biased against everyday people. He may be right. It's also possible that his denigrators love music--and the process of making music--far more than Aiken can imagine and that they resent having their passion marginalized by anyone with a telephone and a taste for Bee Gees medleys. "I don't know why people relate to me," says Aiken, "but my guess is that they're tired of beautiful, cookie-cutter pop stars. They don't believe them, and they...
...gender climate” where one in five male cadets don’t believe women belong at the Academy, according to a survey of students. As women comprise a considerable portion of our military—approximately one-fifth—the idea that their male comrades resent their enrollment is appalling...
...shortcomings are everything the insecure like to project into Harvard students when they learn of our coveted big envelope from the world’s most-recognized university. And just as we resent them for ignoring the sacrifice, doubt and ingratitude we endure along the way, we resent Hornstine for indulging them with satisfaction and a sense of legitimacy...
...most of all, we resent elite universities like Harvard for encouraging the worst in people like Blair Hornstine. She won the college admissions rat-race, after all, because her tragic flaws helped her thrive under its pressures and expectations. Students like her may be rare at Harvard, but less for our integrity than for her excess...