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However, a few months later, after she’d gotten into Harvard, her hometown paper published a local-girl-makes-good story that mentioned her Oxford snub. The English media wolf pack pounced on the story and soon, politicians and pundits around the country were demanding to know why a girl who could get into the United States’ top university couldn’t get into Oxford. Many claimed that Spence had been discriminated against because she attended a public school in northern England...
...disciplined. Perhaps it's because they're not a highlight-reel team that the Titans aren't given even more credit for winning 10 of their last 11 games. None of their players were voted to the Pro Bowl, and this is their first big game since the snub...
...tournament snub came as a huge surprise to Harvard because it had been ranked ahead of Rhode Island in both the NSCAA and Soccer Buzz regional polls for the past several weeks, and ahead of Yale in the Soccer Buzz poll...
...despite the noble goals of UNESCO, the U.S. resigned from the organization in 1984 because of the organization’s left-wing bias. This was an example of the kind of snub that has hurt America’s standing in the eyes of many non-Western countries. Last Thursday, a bipartisan report was published saying that the U.S. image has greatly suffered at the UN. The report recommended that the U.S. build up its influence by involving itself much more deeply in the behind-the-scenes workings of the UN. America’s re-entry...
...unilateralist by many world leaders that simply taking the podium at the U.N. was enough to win him praise. "This process will assuage Europe and others," U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan told Bush privately before the President's address last week. Bush scolded the diplomats for letting Saddam Hussein snub them for 11 years and stopped just short of calling them irrelevant, yet was congratulated for pledging to work with the world body on a new resolution that would force Iraq to give up its weapons of mass destruction...