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...JUSTICES ON THE U.S. SUPREME Court discovered one of their own was a criminal, they would shun him, refusing to appear in court until he resigned. That is how they should treat Justice Clarence Thomas. He is unfit to serve. Several of Anita Hill's former colleagues have corroborated her allegations of Thomas' sexual harassment. As a feminist, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg should be the first to demand Thomas' resignation from the court. Male Justices will be reluctant to blow the whistle on Thomas because they may be guilty of similar sexual harassment...
This argument does not mean that Asians should shun their cultural backgrounds. Indeed, we can use our ethnicities to our benefit. Being ethnic makes us "interesting." It's easy to confuse a "colorful individual" with an "individual of color...
...says Bonnet. A similar proposal has come from Japan, where a group called the Lunar and Planetary Society set out its own ideas for a robot-made moon base that could be built by 2024 for $28 billion. Both plans contain possibilities for collaboration, but Europe and Japan may shun NASA because of its record as an unreliable and bossy partner...
Clinton promised to shun them, but the party wants the dough...
Fuel for the flame was the decision by the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) to continue to bar men from voting. Not that men ever cared before. In fact, they tend to shun the mysterious "R" like the plague, with the exception of that guy who attended the Women's Leadership Conference so he would look sensitive for the Rhodes Scholarship committee (it worked). But once they learned that some club somewhere was barring them from entry--that they were being honest-to-god oppressed--a bunch of men suddenly got incredibly indignant...