Word: scorns
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Harvard students have cultural connections that they could use to establish same-sex relationships as positive—much more subtly than pictures in textbooks ever could. Abstract discussions of politics seldom change people’s positions on issues of sexuality and often produce fiestas of misunderstanding and scorn. It is far more effective to give homosexuality a face. Small things like offhandedly mentioning a friend your mother met while visiting is gay or watching the occasional movie with a positively depicted gay character can go a long way toward eroding the impersonal concept...
...could handle the barons of academe can also handle State and the Pentagon. Finally, you have the ear of a President who trusts and respects you. That's an asset Powell never had. Now to the tough stuff. You were raised in the realist tradition of statecraft, but scorn for its tenets was the greatest sin of the President's first term. The failure came in two parts. One was the treacherous belief in the limitless fungibility of military power - as if it were the one supercurrency that could buy everything else: political clout, hearts and minds, democracy. In Iraq...
...loyalty by throwing America's weight behind the search for Israeli-Palestinian peace. A grand gesture, such as the appointment of a special envoy, would help Blair at home, where the biggest obstacle to re-election next year isn't his moribund Conservative opposition but his own party's scorn for his unswerving allegiance to Bush's agenda. The gesture would also help rehabilitate Blair in Europe, where his basic argument - that by staying close to Bush he boosts the European Union's influence - is looking pretty threadbare...
...student, a Mets fan from the mean streets of Manhattan, looked at us with crocodile tears in his eyes. “I’m just…so…happy,” he sobbed with an undertone of scorn. “They finally won. Now let’s get the fuck out of here...
This anecdote appears telling: Bush was ready with humor, unafraid to inject his two cents into the discussion. This kind of participation attracted both admiration and scorn...