Word: sentimentals
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...referendum, accessible at uc.fas.harvard.edu, will gauge student sentiment on a new version of the academic calendar endorsed by the UC earlier this month. A successful referendum would represent an advocacy tool for Petersen, who is urging Harvard’s governing boards to change the calendar...
...seems, is no. And it’s not because Imus’ popularity had specifically waned in recent months, it’s not because people are no longer outraged by acts of racism, and it’s not because there’s an overriding sentiment of sympathy for Imus. People don’t really care because, well, the medium of radio just isn’t that popular anymore. And as a result, the Imus controversy will fade into oblivion...
...throw their hands up in the air and say, I don't like doing my taxes once, I'm not going to do them twice," says Tom Ochsenschlager, vice president of taxation for the trade group American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, whose members have been profiting from that sentiment...
...grown accustomed to an undercurrent in public policy debates that blames black women for an array of social and cultural failures. Without making distinctions, that racist sentiment casts us all as lazy and drug-addled welfare queens, thoughtless breeders of criminals, and unwed heathens who are sacking the sacred institution of marriage. The obverse, of course, is the black woman who presumes to move into the American mainstream. That woman is not successful. She is uppity...
...wasn't always so. The U.S. Constitution leaves voting rules up to states and cities, and from 1776 to 1926, 40 states and territories allowed noncitizens to vote in local and even federal elections, according to Ron Hayduk, a co-founder of the Immigrant Voting Project. Anti-immigrant sentiment put an end to that, and the aftermath of World War I created a mistrust of foreigners that led all states to make voting the sole privilege of U.S. citizens...