Word: contemptible
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...RELEASED. ARUNDHATI ROY, acclaimed Indian novelist jailed for a day for contempt of court, after she paid a $42 fine to avoid serving another three months; in New Delhi. Roy, who in 1997 won Britain's Booker Prize for her first novel, The God of Small Things, was convicted for criticizing a Supreme Court decision to approve a controversial hydroelectric project...
...Dershowitz stroll about Harvard without encountering disagreement? Does he conduct his lectures as a tenured professor at Harvard without hearing disagreement? Does he discuss his views on torture over dinner with his colleagues and do they agree with him or understand his position? Do his students show him their contempt for torture...
...cares if the detainees in Guantanamo Bay may be mistreated? These are the people who butchered a nation, treated women with contempt and smuggled weapons into a POW camp, resulting in the death of at least one American. Under the circumstances, they are being very well treated. DALE R. MINOR Circleville, Ohio...
...issued credit card." "I'm sure there are those who appreciate your parental concern," conceded a Californian who took offense at our youthful emblem of vulnerability, "but there are others who don't consider this a flattering mirror and who wonder if there is not just a little more contempt than compassion for those whom it is your ambition to inform." Or as a Minnesotan put it, "Please portray the American public as it is--grown-up and thoroughly confused...
Martin A. Armstrong The founder of Princeton Economics International in New Jersey allegedly defrauded Japanese investors of nearly $1 billion, mostly in risky currency trading. He has been jailed since January 2000 for contempt after failing to turn over gold bars, antiques and computers containing information about the case...