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...student body. It’s simply that the tacit assumption, in the classroom as well as outside it, is that everyone is liberal. Why is this? Perhaps because Harvard is located in the People’s Republic of Cambridge in the heart of blue Massachusetts: the sort of community whose Oktoberfest parade features a Communist marching band and an elaborate float of pigs strapped to lipstick rockets. But the Harvard student body comes from all over—even from red states. More than 25 percent of the class of 2012 hails from the traditionally more conservative Midwest...
...just a group of people agreeing with each other. This applies to campus conservatives as well:. Those comfortable enough in their political affiliation to come out as Young Republicans interact only with other Young Republicans, in an alternate, parallel universe similarly devoid of dissenting viewpoints. Given time, this sort of environment produces things like the Men for Palin video. This is good...
...because of this, we have no idea how to respond when people disagree with us. This explains all the exorcisms and flame wars. The assumption that to be intelligent is to be left of center implies that anyone who disagrees is either confused or has recently experienced some sort of intellectually damaging event, like walking into a post. When someone bashfully admits to wanting smaller government or thinking that privatizing social security might not be such a bad idea, instead of trying to discuss, we rush them to UHS for a battery of tests and sprinkle them with secular water...
...It’s unique among the Ivies,” he said. “Ours is sort of the prototype. We’re showing our colleagues how that all works...
...weeks before his speech to the Conservative conference, he had enjoyed the hospitality of Rothschild, an old university chum, in Corfu and attended, with Mandelson and a heady mix of the powerful and the outrageously loaded, Elisabeth Murdoch's 40th birthday dinner on the island. That's exactly the sort of high life former Prime Minister Tony Blair notoriously enjoyed during his tenure in Downing Street. Blair's vacations with well-heeled new best friends, from Italian media magnate-turned-premier Silvio Berlusconi to Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees, played badly back home. But how much worse it looks...