Word: symptom
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...Perot's candidacy is both a symptom of the failure of American democracy and a hopeful beacon of its ability to regenerate itself. Over the past two decades, presidential politics has become a blood sport reserved for the paid professionals; there is no room for amateurs anymore, no storefront headquarters staffed with volunteers, no buttons, no bumper stickers. Into this cynical world of negative TV spots and staged sound bites Perot marched in to announce, in effect, "This is America. We don't have to take their candidates, we can nominate...
...dean's slow responsiveness came last month with the publication of the Mary Joe Frug parody. The insensitive and misogynistic parody was condemned by almost all members of the Law School community. But Clark waited a week before responding and still has not acknowledged that the parody is a symptom of larger problems at the institution...
...referendum also attempted to measure student response to a recent Harvard Law Review parody of an article by slain feminist legal scholar Mary Joe Frug, Antonson said. Many have called the parody a symptom of deeper tensions at the Law School...
...professors disagreed with the earlier letter's claim that the recent parody of murdered feminist scholar Mary Joe Frug's piece in the spoof edition of the Law Review was a symptom of a larger problem of sexism at the Law School. The piece con- tained what critics claimed to be misogynisticand insensitive comments...
...scholars said the spoof was not aone-time incident perpetrated by a fewindividuals, but was a "symptom of a much widerproblem...