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...statuettes at the , Emmy Awards. "It hurts because I have so many people ((on the show)) I feel for," he says. "I get rewarded for this, but for the crew and the people who really grunt to get things done on this show -- well, I take it as an affront to all of them. Everybody wants to have what we have and be No. 1. But after you get here, then what do you want? Roseanne said something to me: 'You've already been No. 1. Don't make it your life's goal to stay No. 1, because that...
...aside the moral affront of an American President who denounces terrorism, then visits the capital of a terrorist state. Consider only the question of political logic: What did the U.S. get out of this trip...
...affront that someone in an academic position should have published a work of racism, even one cloaked in scholarly research. But it's also sad that a Harvard student would think that one race is genetically superior to others. And it is almost inconceivable that this student would be an elected leader of Black students on campus. Nonetheless, this is the situation with which we are confronted...
...extension of Lat's attack on "gay pride" which is the true affront to the celebrations of diversity which Philippine Forum, and I, defend...
What instructive lessons could be derived from this outrage, this tragedy, this affront to the button-down proprieties of the 1950s? Surely something was revealed here about American materialism. Or the cynicism of its media masters. Or perhaps the gullible neediness of the public, yearning to identify with a guy who somehow managed to be smart, cute and lucky at once, just the way we all want...