Word: unpopular
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Full randomization is certainly an unpopular proposal. In the 1960s, the University tried to diversify the populations of the Houses by trying to balance the members of each House in terms of race, background, and even personality type. This approach was finally abandoned in 1974 due to student pressure, and the old system of ordered choice was reinstated...
...battle of Kathy is also complicated by her race; black singers such as Battle, Leontyne Price and Jessye Norman have had to make their way -- determinedly, often courageously -- in an overwhelmingly white milieu. Yet so unpopular has Battle become that she is often openly derided with the crudest kind of racial epithets -- backstage at the Met she is known as the "U.N.," or "uppity nigger" -- and speculations about her sanity are widespread. "She's young, pretty, very talented and very, very screwed up," says a Met insider. "I think she's sick, actually, but I couldn't tell...
Presidential leadership is often defined as the ability to rally the nation to unpopular causes. Leadership also demands that a President forthrightly explain why actions aren't taken or why they are paltry compared with past rhetoric. Clinton is doing neither. Unfortunately, on the streets of both Bosnia and America, the consequences of that behavior produce casualties that far transcend the President's own diminished moral and political credibility...
...battle-weary warrior for truth, justice, and the 'merican way, poor, poor Professor Paglia hits the lecture circuit, appears on talk show after talk show and yaps, yaps, yaps, about how she has been denied her "rightful" place at the academic table because she dares to speak the unpopular "truth." Yet the uncomfortable truth for Paglia is that her traveling one-woman show resembles noting so much as Eva Peron's triumphant world tour reprised for the postmodern landscape of tabloid...
...Only and unpopular person would ask that question...