Word: weaponeering
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...speech, Kennedy denounced "those who misuse race as a political weapon." Prior to Thomas's confirmation, some speculation centered on whether he was nominated because he is Black...
Harvard's strength is its ability to push the ball upfield from both sides. Clark, Fowler and Gaffney have proven very adept in transitions this year. Once Harvard pushes the ball into the Tiger end they will have to match Princeton's aggressiveness and force corners, its best offensive weapon...
...professions, most victims are "women in lowly positions," says Susan Rubenstein, an attorney in San Francisco who specializes in sexual-harassment cases. "A secretary will get harassed before a lawyer, a paralegal will get harassed before an associate." Particularly in male bastions, women find that feminism becomes, ironically, a weapon in the attack...
MEDICINE Can a patient's own tumor cells be a weapon against cancer...
...charge that Columbus' arrival instigated genocide has become a major weapon in the anti-Columbian arsenal. George Tinker, a Native American who teaches at the Iliff School of Theology in Denver, says of the quincentennial plans: "We're talking about celebrating the great benefit to some people brought by the murder of other people." Further to Columbus' discredit, at the bar of contemporary judgment, is his identity as a white European male. Across the U.S., academicians will be jetting to innumerable conferences where they will give papers on the colonial depredations and horrors that Columbus inaugurated. Author Hans Koning...