Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those ends, Iran has banned Baha'i administrative institutions, disrupted Baha'i children's classes, denied pensions, confiscated properties and denied Baha'is admission to universities. It is a bitter irony, not previously unknown to history, that the Iranian Baha'is whose religion's central teaching is love of humanity, should be the victim of this inhumane hatred. Iranian President Khatami's recent calls for a dialogue with the West and an opening of a strong and free civil society in Iran had fostered much optimism about Iran's future, even facilitating the reestablishment of relations with the United Kingdom...
...gasp) intelligent listeners, and the seductively quirky voice of lead singer Michael Doughty all melded together on Ruby Vroom to create nothing short of a miracle. Their second album, Irresistible Bliss, released in 1996, lost some of the momentum of Ruby Vroom (primarily because of the large number of bitter love ballads), although Soul Coughing found themselves a few steps closer to fame due mostly to the success of the upbeat, radio-friendly tune, "Super...
...secret key to the present and the future. In the report, the curator calls Humerelli the "Monica of the day." He explains that the people of Nuzi were "throwing the book at a corrupt, a criminally corrupt, mayor" and says the museum was "keenly aware of a certain bitter irony." The article's ending makes the connection between the two scandals explicit: "So what happened to Kushshi-harbe, the alleged philandering leader of Nuzi? No tipoff to Clinton's fate there. The cuneiform tablet with the ruling has never been found...
Ironically, yesterday was National Coming Out Day. This year, the celebration was tempered by mourning--and tempered by a bitter acknowledgement. For all the progress this nation has made in the nearly 30 years since the birth of the American gay rights movement in 1969, there remains a large and, we have reason to fear, growing homophobia from coast to coast...
...impulse of global investors to pull their capital out of any country where they sense the slightest risk. Sinai explains that because of Russia's thousands of nuclear weapons, many considered its economy too important to be allowed to fail. Yet it did collapse, and investors drew a bitter lesson: in theory any country could "stiff the creditors" just as Russia...