Word: calloused
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...that whoever stole the banner would show such callous disrespect—not only for University property, but also for the goals our project promotes,” Cohen said...
...choose to look away. We all do. When an elderly man asks us for change outside CVS or Uno’s, we pretend not to hear, or stare blankly into space while quickly moving on our way. However, becoming habituated to homelessness is not strong; it is callous. This is not to say that we are obligated to give money to the homeless on a daily basis, but we must not pretend as if they do not even exist or are somehow less than human. The social stigma against being anything less than blasé about Harvard Square homelessness...
...it’s not just Krikorian’s affiliations or his organization’s genesis and leaders that are problematic. Krikorian is on record making bigoted and callous statements about minorities. For example, in response to the recent earthquake tragedy in Haiti, Krikorian wrote on the conservative National Review Online, “…Haiti’s so screwed up because it wasn’t colonized long enough.” Krikorian also suggested that the solution for Haiti “would be to resume colonialism...
Wakefield's methods were the subject of what was almost certainly the longest medical-misconduct inquiry in British history. The General Medical Council, which licenses British doctors, ruled on Jan. 28 that Wakefield and two of his co-investigators had acted dishonestly and irresponsibly and shown "callous disregard" for the 12 children in the study, which suggested that symptoms of autism in eight of the children and gastrointestinal trouble in all 12 were somehow linked with exposure to the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine...
...climbing companion, the brooding Toni Kurz (Benno Furrmann). For this duo, to conquer the Eiger’s North Face is to conquer the world. They are cheered on by Luise (Johanna Wokalek), an amateur photographer and their childhood friend, as well as her employer, the deliciously callous Berliner Zeitung reporter Arau (Ulrich Tukur...