Word: tokenisms
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...meetings, they’d even be on the sideline come Saturday. But they wouldn’t take the field for a single down. Not one, Murphy said.Ever the disciplinarian, Murphy had laudably put his foot down. No rap on the knuckles, no meaningless off-season punishment, no token one-game suspension. A full slate wiped away to send the message that such behavior would not be tolerated, no exceptions, not even for Bryant, arguably the team’s most talented defensive lineman heading into the off-season. It was a classic dose of tough love...
...same token, supply-siders on the Republican right regard Bernanke with suspicion. A recent critique of Bernanke in the online edition of the conservative National Review labeled him a "Keynesian" who believes in the "limits" of growth, and portrayed him as a central banker unlikely to support more and deeper tax cuts. As National Review put it, "Much right now is being made of President Bush's historic chance to remake the Supreme Court. No doubt that's true. Perhaps just as important will be Bush's Federal Reserve appointments, foremost of which will be Alan Greenspan's replacement...
...those people who claim eclectic musical taste? These claims are mostly empty. Anyone who writes “eclectic” on thefacebook.com listens to and loves anything Pitchfork feeds them. Eclecticism’s most common manifestation in college is a playlist full of Pitchfork favorites with some token polka/showtunes/Bulgarian songs intended to impress or throw off any curious onlisteners...
...emerged as the most likely candidates for this year’s presidential race. And though these four UC fixtures remain outwardly ambivalent about their intentions for running, a dearth of experienced potential candidates means that the field will be relatively limited this December no matter what. Enter the token outsider: Connor C. Wilson ’07, who won the Adams House representative election through a spirited write-in campaign two weeks ago. Wilson served as the campaign manager to last year’s unexpectedly successful outsider/insider ticket of Tracy “Ty” Moore...
Pappin can whine all he wants, but we welcome the media onslaught. The Salient, Harvard’s token conservative paper, should agree that competition is never a bad thing. But we do understand why Pappin felt overwhelmed. (Nude girls...