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...hindsight we scorn the whites who loved minstrel shows and pity the blacks who had to play in them. But there are shades of culpability. Astaire, donning blackface for his Bojangles of Harlem number, probably thought (from ignorance, not malice) that he was paying sincere tribute to the great dancer Bill Robinson. As for Mantan Moreland, the black comic whose bug-eyed mugging in Charlie Chan films earns Lee's particular ire, he also was the star of films made for, and presumably appreciated by, the black audience. Perhaps we all have 20/20 vision of the past...
Hunter's stance is that he ingested nutritional supplements that had somehow become tainted, boosting his nandro level to 1,000 times the allowable limit. The scorn greeting this claim was as deep as Sydney harbor. "Impossible," said the International Olympic Committee's Jacques Rogge. "The only way to have such levels is either by injection or taking pills." Even if Rogge is correct, Hunter may get off. His lawyer is Johnnie Cochran--yes, O.J.'s Johnnie Cochran--and Cochran will present Hunter's appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. At the 1996 Atlanta Games, nine athletes were...
...also true that Harvard students would be universally condemned for the sheer greed of demanding even more on top of the already-generous salaries business recruiters offer. I imagine it would be similar to the scorn many people have for baseball players, who make more than a million dollars a year on average but still belong to a union and occasionally go on strike. Not fair! Recruiting firms have been exploiting student greed to win recruits for years. If anything, a union would mitigate the pervasive presence of greed on this campus by reminding students that there is more...
...election. Now, Forbes mentioned faith and family values almost as often as the labyrinthine federal tax code. Assuming Forbes did not undergo a drastic personal metamorphosis in the last four years, he began to speak about religion solely to attract voters. Actions such as this deserve scorn and condemnation...
...where hating our enemies is a guiltless pleasure, Rockers villainy begs us pause. John Rocker may be a character, but he isn't playing one. He is a real--if often absurd--person, and yet we still guiltlessly revel in the cathartic pleasure of our very public scorn...