Word: strident
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...don’t expect Adams’ most strident critics to have a change of heart. But for the rest of you, try to keep things in perspective. If Mather House had to serve a third of its meals to first-years, you can bet that Hunter A. Maats ’04 would be declaring war on the Yard. What it comes down to is this—sure, Adams residents were really lucky in the housing lottery, but that does not mean that they are any less deserving of a functioning House community...
...metal hinge in the bathroom and saw nothing but relief,” he writes. “I wrapped the leather around my neck. It felt cold and slightly sticky, but I did not jerk from it. I felt out of my body.” Given the strident title of Blair’s memoir, it’s hard not to view this scene as a potent self-lynching. Indeed, while the veracity of Blair’s account is necessarily dubious, he is still a talented writer: his memoir often succeeds even as fiction...
...investing an additional $2 million per year on financial aid makes a mockery of his claim that the University’s governing policies are analogous to those of a heartless corporation concerned only with the bottom line. It is vitally important that tenure allows Epps to be a strident critic of University policies; it is also crucial, however, that someone contradicts his arguments, especially when Harvard administrators are loathe to engage in unseemly slanging matches with their strident critics...
Given the clear and strident opposition that has been voiced, even at this level, to the constitutional challenge, it is time to look to other legal avenues for challenging Solomon. The District of Columbia’s Human Rights Act (HRA)—the strongest civil rights law in the country—provides an alternative or additional legal avenue that could be much more promising and would have implications nationwide. Rather than seeking to strike down a federal statute on constitutional grounds, something judges are very reluctant to do, an HRA-based challenge, which can be brought whether...
...party can’t join in the governing game. So perhaps the Dems could learn something from their political cousins Down Under. Australia’s Labour Party has been shut out of power for the last eight years by the conservative Howard administration, which, incidentally, has been strident in its support for President Bush’s foreign policy. Labour has just chosen a new leader to challenge Howard: maverick politician Mark Latham, who recently denounced Bush as “the most incompetent and dangerous president in living memory...