Word: younger
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...When the story of Adams's and Breedlove broke, the most broadcast cause of public ire was the fact that Adams had lied about the relationship—not that he’d cultivated a homosexual liaison with a younger person. Yet the calls for Adams to resign and the media coverage of the issue have tinged the affair with a pallor of homophobia and judgment of Adams’s sexual behavior...
...doing so, Adams reverted to a stereotype about stereotyping and became the boy who cried bigot. I would venture that Adams was indeed correct in his assumption that bigotry would inform the media’s treatment of his alleged affair. Whereas older men who hit on younger women are thought of as sleazy (read: Bill Clinton), men who solicit young men are dubbed “lewd” or “perverted” (Larry Craig, anyone...
That leaves the Tibetan side, whose exile community has shown increasing signs of fracturing as younger Tibetans push for an approach different from the Dalai Lama's "middle way," which stresses patient negotiation. But short of launching an intifadeh that would condemn the Tibetan people to even greater suffering, there appears to be no realistic alternative that could increase pressure on Beijing...
...Some of those veterans aren’t even playing for us right now. So that’s hurt us and set us back.”Upperclassmen started to peel off early in the season due to back, knee, and ankle problems, opening up positions for the younger players. While this is not an ideal situation by any means, Harvard could not have been in a better position to compensate for this misfortune, considering it has a top-25 recruiting class. “To lead the program at this point, it is very difficult for younger players...
...It’s sad,” MacDonald says. “I’m one of those older guys I used to look at when I was younger...