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Daniels said the alumni did not resent the purpose of the shanty, but rather its placement on a plaza originally designed to memorialize "the Yale men who died in the World Wars...
There's nothing particularly wrong with aspirations for great wealth or spectacular achievement (in fact, you're all invited for a ride on my yacht someday, right after my Nobel prize party), but what I do resent is the obligation that's implied by a Harvard degree. It's as if the rules in the student handbook read, "no boistorous games in the Yard, no hanging posters with nails, and no post-graduate incomes below $25,000 the first year unless attending law or med school...
...report has angered many educators, who resent Bennett's emphasis on the negative, his slighting of the achievements of the past five years, and his finger pointing. "Sarcastic, belittling, patronizing," declared John Brademas, president of New York University and formerly a leading education advocate in Congress. California Superintendent of Public Instruction Bill Honig notes that the number of students scoring above 450 in math and 500 in verbal on SATs has jumped 18% since 1983. "If this was the steel industry and we had an 18% gain in productivity, it would make headlines," says Honig. The downbeat report, he adds...
FIRST and foremost, on the 20th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s death, the media should apply the spotlight to Jackson's highly controversial and debatable claim that he cradled a dying King in his arms. Coretta Scott King and other leaders of the civil rights movement still resent Jackson's actions during the days after King's death, especially his claim that the turtleneck he was wearing had the slain leader's blood on it. Does this show Jackson is an opportunistic showboat...
...point is simple. I resent very much being tossed into a category of people labelled "intolerant." It is surprising that certain individuals have found it so easy to place a label on such a diverse community. Is that not the epitome of intolerance, precisely what you are criticizing...