Word: resents
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...mainly for their social policies. It probably dates back to high school, when some students experienced icy rejection by the popular crowd. They weren’t cool enough or social enough to get the right boyfriend or girlfriend, or to be invited to the right parties. Now, people resent being excluded from the final club social scene...
...strange for me to realize that I am now one of the students that the neighbors must resent so bitterly. Here at Harvard, we generally live on campus, so we do not intrude into the Cambridge neighborhood. We don’t drive families out. We don’t disturb them with our music. We don’t crowd their streets with our cars. But we maintain a firm indifference to these communities, and I am sure that the Cantabrigians object to our presence as strenuously as my father did to the students in my town. Our consciousness...
Bringing back the King has its drawbacks. Zahir Shah is 86, and many Afghans resent the fact that throughout the brutal war against the Soviets and the turmoil afterward, he remained aloof from their suffering, silent in his gilded exile. But already a groundswell for his return is growing among the Pashtun tribes in Afghanistan along the frontier. Reports are sketchy, but in the southern Afghan provinces of Khost, Paktia and Paktika influential tribal elders are so worried about rising support for the King among their clansmen that they are threatening to burn down the houses of anyone caught switching...
...Japanese," says Yan, sitting in the LMF band room, meticulously rolling a Rizla cigarette paper around a line of weed. "It's not about nationalism or anything," he insists, "but no one should want to be a fake Japanese person." The group rarely uses English in their songs and resent accusations that they're just copying American hip-hop fashions. "We are not trying to pretend to be black people," says Yan, who sports a scraggly goatee and a tattoo of an Alaskan killer whale totem on his shoulder...
Some faculty members resent the focus on freshmen, accusing the administration of "hand holding." Joni Petschauer, director of freshman learning communities, pleads guilty: "Yes! That's exactly what we're doing. We're extending our hands to them for the first semester. I embrace that...