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Michigan prosecutors responded with a request that Kevorkian's bond be increased from $10,000 to $20,000 and that he put up 10% of it in cash. In court Judge Thomas Jackson granted the increase, telling Kevorkian sharply that he had been in "utter contempt and flagrant violation" of the state law. Kevorkian's thin frame slumped, and he said, "I won't move...
Speaker Theresa Seay said that the U.S.government's unwillingness to re-open theinvestigation shows contempt for the public...
...enthusiasms sometimes betray him. He wastes time, for instance, trying to discredit the Bush campaign in a gambit that does not pan out. On the other hand, his laughing ferocity in defense of the candidate when he is attacked on issues Carville regards as diversionary and his confident contempt for his opponents are inspirational. He may not be charismatic in the usual sense of the word, but you can see him hypnotizing the staff. And smooth, soft-voiced George Stephanopoulos, the campaign's director of communications, whose idea of cutting loose is to blow bubble gum while...
This terrible material wastes the talents of its principals. Irons makes the most of his two-dimensional character, and Lone ("The Last Emperor") manages to make clear Song's contempt for the fantasies he caters to. One of the film's few decent moments is Song's explication of the appeal of Puccini's Madama Butterfly: would the opera seem so romantic, she asks, if the races of the protagonists were reversed? Would Westerners swoon to see a blond cheerleader kill herself over a doomed love affair with a Japanese businessman...
Last year Mansfield revealed his inanity (and his penchant for publicity) with his comments about Women's Studies and Black students. It's no surprise, then, that he's once again expressing contempt for a sizeable portion of the student body and faculty. This time, though, he's chosen not to limit the scope of his remarks to this campus; Mansfield voiced these sentiments as a trial witness in defense of Colorado's Amendment Two, which prevents the cities of that state from enacting statutes to protect the civil rights of homosexuals...