Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With sports, wins don't always earn respect on campus. Our squash teams have won many national titles, but they could never draw the crowds of the Harvard-Yale game. Similarly, the more popular teams, in sports like football and basketball, are too often compared with their nationally recognized peers at powerhouse universities to really earn our respect. Last year, the Ivy champion women's basketball team was both popular and successful. But it was not until they scored a historic upset against top-ranked Stanford on national TV that they received the credit they deserved...
Abortion activists should also uphold the principle of nonviolence, honor and respect the right of free speech, and refrain from techniques which are designed to intimidate or create fear, they said...
...qualify a discussion on race to such a degree--as people do so often--does not complicate it; rather, it simplifies. People deliver these disclaimers in the name of "open dialogue." They want to show that they realize the sensitivity and complexity of the issue and respect the exchange of ideas. However, their eagerness to prove what open minds they have backfires. The hesitant beginning leads to a hesitant discussion. Fear of saying the "wrong thing" obscures honest talk. People bite their tongues, and a woefully inadequate status quo remains in place. As a result, the "open dialogue" becomes quite...
That inability to critically assess their material hurts this compilation. Youth, one might think, would work well here, imparting pubescent angst to these most angst-ridden of tunes. Unfortunately, most of the bands featured have too much respect for the songs they cover, playing them in much the same style with only minor changes of tempo or instrumentation. This forces one inevitably to compare the originals--and the comparison often comes up short. The Gadjits' take on the Simple Minds classic "Don't You (Forget About Me)," for example, preserves the source's arrangement down to the deep voices...
...hard for friends to understand how the cookie becomes more than a mere reality. Talking about the cookie, fretting over its maintenance, spending idle moments deciding if an acquaintance is worthy of receiving a cookie: all these things are natural. Bringing over cookies is the sign of utmost respect and sincere wishes for someone to feel better, to celebrate their birthday or to recover from wisdom-tooth surgery that makes cookie consumption impossible. From there, one builds an appreciation to the point where the sight alone of the cookie in the box--an island of sweetness and familiarity...