Word: resentment
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...Mansfield and I both claim to know the meaning of responsibility and we resent each other for not getting it right. He frowns when students speak out of turn. I scream when I hear that Harvard Management pays someone $10 million a year to throw the dice on the stock exchange and less than $10 dollars an hour to 50 year old janitors who have been sweating at Harvard for years...
...mere six days into the brand-spanking-new NBA season, the basketball league-cum-soap opera I've come to know and resent is up to its old tricks...
Other parents are ambivalent. Many resent teachers for piling on projects that cut into unstructured family time. And yet the drive of middle- and upper-middle-class Americans to keep their children at the head of the class has never been more intense. The teachers who assign mountains of homework often believe they are bowing to the wishes of demanding parents. Says Jeana Considine, a fifth-grade teacher at Elm Elementary School in Hinsdale, Ill.: "The same parents who are complaining that they don't have enough family time would be really upset if their child didn't score well...
...make this situation easier for us, like Professor Thomas Scanlon, who told his Moral Reasoning 33 class not to study over break. Also, professors and TFs who assign final papers due before winter break can be a big help in reducing the vacation guilt factor. You may resent them in December, but you'll thank them in January...
...story on monstrous houses that tycoons build, focusing on Bill Gates' "high-tech haven," smacked of sour grapes. If Gates has wealth that he earned by hard work, let him enjoy it and spend it how he chooses. Don't resent it when people have amassed a lot of money through their labors. They deserve to live any way they want. JAYANTHI DE ALWIS Colombo, Sri Lanka...