Word: slurs
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...city's slumped shoulders extend over a remarkably broad piece of the nation. But some things are not meant to be shared and, until now, the Bears have embodied most of them. No outsider is as wary of freezing conditions as a Chicagoan is proprietary of frostbite. Any Sunbelt slur is returned with a blast of icy superiority. "Bear weather," they call it. A Midwesterner's notion of comfort is plainly more profound than climate, and it is his wisdom that few towns are as provincial as the ones that fancy themselves cosmopolitan. Chicago has no problem with newspaper headlines...
...general law,” HUPD Spokesman Steven G. Catalano said. “What you’re investigating is to determine whether the offender is using the person’s sex, race, religion as a motivating factor. There are some instances when someone will say a slur during the course of a crime but that doesn’t make it necessarily a hate crime...
...Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations hopes to inject some desperately needed levity into the contentious discourse on race and ethnic identity. To that end, on the evening of April 11, it launched its second annual film festival under the title, “Whose Slur Is It Anyway? Defining Ethnic Identity Through Humor and Satire...
...weigh-in, Paret, a Cuban immigrant, called Griffith "maricn"--a Spanish slur for homosexual and an allusion to rumors that Griffith was gay. Griffith does not reveal his sexual orientation, but, he says calmly, "I wasn't nobody's faggot." In the 12th round, he trapped Paret in the corner and unleashed a brutal flurry of uppercuts to his head. Norman Mailer likened the barrage to "a baseball bat demolishing a pumpkin." Paret died 10 days later...
...them hurrying by you down Plympton Street, conservative ties fluttering, cell phones at their ears, portfolios emblazoned with the Harvard seal tucked under their arms. They are seniors who have chosen to do recruiting, and they can be dismissed, by the dissimilarly inclined, with a hissed one-word slur: “Tool...