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...Five: Well, those views are pretty shocking, but one loony isn’t symptomatic of a larger problem at Harvard. In addition to a number of hostile responses, Pappin claims to have received e-mails from nine undergraduates supporting his letter. Clearly, the view that homosexuality is vile and worthy of repression—if not quite suppression—is held by more people on campus than just he. Pappin mercifully appears to be in the sizeable minority on this issue, but he is not alone...
Therein lies Russia’s—and France and China’s—fundamental quarrel with American strategy. Whereas Bush is preoccupied with removing a vile dictatorship before it acquires nuclear capability, they are more concerned with removing the U.N. sanctions. Over the past 12 years, energy executives from the three countries have negotiated provisional agreements with Hussein to begin major oil development projects on the day that sanctions are finally revoked...
...radical left had a huge presence. Their views were accepted as normal, so the less radical liberals, not to mention everyone else, were seen as reactionary, out of it, or even wicked. It was very painful and difficult. Everyone in certain professions was characterized as a vile person. It was actually very simplistic. The tone of the publications on campus was the same...
...region, is anti-Semitic in effect because it demonizes and delegitimates the only Jewish nation for sins committed far more frequently and grievously by others. As Thomas Friedman of the New York Times has written: “criticizing Israel is not anti-Semitic, and saying so is vile. But singling out Israel for opprobrium and international sanction—out of all proportion to any other party in the Middle East—is anti-Semitic, and not saying so is dishonest...
...radiance: "If I'd known you were gonna get on the show, I never woulda said don't do it." Tracy also gets endorsements. At Mr. Pinky's Hefty Hideaway, Mr. P. wants Tracy to be the shop's "exclusive spokesperson and fashion effigy." In retaliation, Amber spreads vile calumny about the Special Ed. creature who's stealing her boyfriend. "Tracy is loose and she's retarded," Amber hisses. "She's fast AND she's slow." Our heroine responds to our villainess: "You have acne of the soul...