Word: rottenness
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...French newspaper Le Monde. "As the guardian of party orthodoxy and authority, his aims are political, not personal." Ultimately at stake, perhaps, is the corruption of official life that is being exposed by the new politics. As Tatu notes, "There's been a general awakening as to just how rotten the regime...
...strangest thing from my point of view is the way that this feeling about the United States being a rotten country was that the people responsible for that were universities," Pusey adds. "This I find absolutely shocking, that anyone could have been at Harvard and come to an idea like that. I thought it would have to be a damn fool...
Homophobia exists on campus to be sure--as the scribbled message "Harvard faggots die" indicates. However, to use this to brand the Harvard/Radcliffe heterosexual community as overwhelmingly intolerant is making the tempting mistake of calling the whole bushel rotten because of a few rotten apples. The fact is that Harvard is overwhelmingly tolerant...
...serious ethics problems. Few incumbents lay awake nights worrying about the unemployment line; 88% triumphed with at least 60% of the vote, the classic definition of a safe district. The traditional levers of incumbency, augmented by the largesse of political-action committees, have created this modern version of a rotten-borough system. In the four House elections since 1980, a total of 1,740 seats were at stake, yet only about 30 sitting Congressmen were defeated for reasons other than redistricting and ethics. Old-fashioned democratic reasons, that is, like having a strong opponent or taking stands unpopular with...
Robert Towne's plot recalls the old James Cagney melodramas in which righteous Pat O'Brien fought for his soul and rotten Humphrey Bogart tried to perforate his body. But the moral is utterly today: it's about going straight without paying the price. As handsome and slack muscled as a surfer past his prime, the movie renounces ambiguity for confusion. In the end, like an old set of tires or a frayed friendship, Tequila Sunrise just wears...