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...University needs to maintain secrecy in these matters, officials argue, to avoid hurting candidates' feelings. A person rejected by Harvard should not be subjected to public scorn, they say, and a person who does get tenure should be made to think that the vote was unanimous...
...that doesn't mean that such utopian protest is futile. The skepticism with which we approach a vote to stock cyanide pills (which the university will not honor, by the way) is part scorn for foolishness, but it is also, I think, the unfortunate result of a belief that such protests achieve nothing. Hardened by the failed excesses of the sixties, our generation shies away from such displays, claiming they are naive, lambasting what we see as token and counterproductive grabs for media attention. But we should remember that nearly twenty-five years ago, when four young black students simply...
Although his actions have prompted scorn and snickering during his campaign for a second term, two things usually fatal to a politician, the fervently conservative Senator has demonstrated a Teflon resistance to lasting taint. The Des Moines Register poll conducted last spring showed him 16 points behind his opponent, Democratic Congressman Tom Harkin, but the Register poll released last week gave the Senator a 50%-to-41% lead. Jepsen has appealed to Iowa voters by claiming to be a victim of "character assassination." At a Republican state convention, he won sympathy by saying he had been "stripped of all worldly...
Cruz had apparently hoped that by returning home to challenge Junta Coordinator Daniel Ortega Saavedra for the presidency, he might be able to pressure the Sandinistas into making concessions, such as a general amnesty and opening talks with U.S.-backed anti-Communist contra guerrillas. But that tactic only drew scorn from the Managua regime. The Sandinista newspaper, Barricada, charged that Cruz had presented his candidacy "like an intermediary of the mercenaries, financed by President Reagan and the CIA." Said Sandinista Directorate Member Bayardo Arce: "Why should we talk to the clowns when we can talk to the circus owners...
...matter how strongly some women felt about voting, though, the overwhelming issue of that era was the abolition of slavery, and Stanton's associates eagerly joined the battle. They made speeches, raised money, collected signatures-often braving scorn and even physical threats-because they believed that abolition implied equal rights for all, Black and White, men and women. But when the Civil War was fought and won, they were appalled to learn that the newly drafted 14th Amendment guaranteed full citizenship to Blacks but only to "male inhabitants...