One of the organizers of last year's gathering, she says fighting for admission to a graveyard, no matter how prestigious and symbolic, isn't worth the energy.
It isn't a racist portrayal, necessarily, but is certainly one that gives actual racists a lot of comfort....Recognizing Fox as an enemy worth fighting is an admission of weakness for a president whose appeal has been partly predicated on the promise of unity.
SEEK broke the ice, Mr. Edelstein said, providing access for black and Hispanic students who became the vanguard of the campus militants fighting for open admissions.
Hardly fighting talk but an unusual admission that not all was sweetness and light.
Still, what they are now fighting for is, by the admission of gun control advocates, a diminished version of what they wanted — and even that is proving a tough sell.
Small skirmishes fill the newspapers here almost every day: parents fighting against favoritism in school admissions, patients suing doctors for malpractice, farmers protesting against dam projects, villagers complaining about factories' pollution.
The top programs are worth fighting to get into, but neither admission or rejection is as personal as it feels.
By his own admission, he had been "fighting for my life" as the seven-day trial headed towards its conclusion.
Yankees Manager Joe Torre said the suspension would not be appealed, adding that not fighting the punishment was not an admission of guilt.
Weekend missile attacks in southern Lebanon and Israel were further proof of that contention, as was Hezbollah's admission that its forces were fighting alongside Assad's troops.
