Word: scared
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...along with many other blacks—took it as an insult. Many whites are comfortable with Barack Obama because they don’t see him in the same way that they still see a majority of black people in America. Obama doesn’t scare white people. The clean, articulate, and bright guy whom Americans are impressed with is the exact opposite of what Americans expect black people in this country to be.Blacks are violent. Blacks are angry. Blacks are lazy. Things like racial profiling and negative media portrayals are demonstrative of the suspicious way in which...
...leading up to their semester’s introductory meeting, I overheard countless conversations that were gratuitously hostile. What ever happened to crumpling up flyers and throwing them into the trash (or recycling bin, for the environmentally-conscious)? Did “The 40 Year-Old Virgin” scare our campus so badly that we must now resort to this infantile manner of derision toward abstinent peers...
...meet of the season, 16-11, to Princeton to open the day, rebounding in the afternoon with a convincing 19-8 victory over Penn. The third-ranked women handily took their opening two matches, winning 21-6 against Cornell and 17-10 against the Tigers, only to get a scare later in the day when the Quakers threatened to deal them their second loss of the season. But the women prevailed in a 15-12 win. The men’s loss could hardly have been closer, as the squad posted 5-4 defeats in the saber and foil with...
...million Amount Turner Broadcasting System and a marketing firm agreed to pay in restitution after a publicity stunt, which involved planting blinking signs for a Cartoon Network show on Boston bridges, sparked a terrorism scare and several days of nonstop media attention...
...school Communist stronghold the People’s Republic of China (PRC), the superpower perpetually on the verge of blowing up (literally and figuratively), now claims the world’s fourth largest economy as well as the site of the 2008 Summer Olympics. But the next Red Scare might come not from the PRC, but from our own hemisphere. So much for containment. A new leader, Venezuela’s president Hugo Chavez, is taking a Fidel Castro/Che Guevara approach to government: one part faux-Socialist, one part seriously Communist, one part smokin’ hot. President Castro, fearless...