Word: respectable
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...book. I wandered around the nearly empty store, passing the counter a number of times as though in search of a certain item. Still, no one approached me to ask if I needed help. Finally, when I neared another salesman, he politely asked if he could help me. The respect in his voice contrasted with the easy, presumptuously friendly tone of yesterday's salesman. I decline his help and left the store, feeling rather...
Home again. I enter the dining hall. By this time, many of my friends already know about my experiment, but I still receive curious glances from the staff. Again, I am impressed by the silence, and respect that the silence implied. Nobody asks me why I'm dressed the way I am, except for the polite query, "Is it a special holiday today?" Nobody wants to offend at Harvard, but it leaves me feeling rather lonely. I find my friends, though, and eat a weary meal...
...with respect and regret that we note the departure from the public sector of Franklin D. Raines '71, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget at the White House. As he arrives on campus this coming Monday to address the Harvard Black Law Students Association at the Faculty Club at 5:30 p.m., he is worthy of our welcome...
Surely, tourists who travel abroad want to respect and value the people in the lands they visit. Thus the endless debates over "Asian values," democracy and the value of constructive engagement should ring hollow when compared with the simple, sincerely expressed wishes of the Burmese: they do not want tourists as long as tourism undermines their democratic aspirations. And with the current level of military control over the burgeoning tourist trade, visitors to Burma cannot but hurt the people and land they are visiting. In any case, I cannot imagine that staying in hotels built with slave labor makes...
Such a weak punishment following a protracted investigation in which the six students continued to harass their classmates is completely unacceptable. Not only does the procedure show a lack of respect for student and Faculty complaints of sexual harassment--a lapse that could have repercussions from federal employment regulators; the light punishment also serves to condone the behavior. For a school with a student body that is 70 percent male and thus desperate to increase the number of female applicants, this decision is as unwise as it is unjust...