Word: cruel
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...that day, you, his mother, are immoral for not wearing a full black chador, and are disrespecting "our culture." Not long after, her son ran home from school weeping, after his class chanted "Death to America" at an annual school protest rally. His classmates, being young and therefore casually cruel, told him that because he had been born in America, he would need to die too. That day, his school, teachers and most of his classmates forever lost their credibility...
...cooks at his restaurant. (I didn't say he forgot how to swear.) F Word (stands for food) is enjoyable less for cooking tips than for Ramsay's political incorrectness about, say, foie gras, the buttery liver produced by force-feeding ducks and geese. "Some people think it's cruel," he says. "I think it's delicious." Just like...
Anita Desai knows from cruel experience about the horrors of competing for big literary awards. Three times the renowned Indian novelist has been a finalist for the MAN Booker Prize for fiction, and three times she's failed to win it. But last week, says Desai, the stress was worse than ever?because this time, the finalist was her daughter Kiran. Roused by her sister-in-law at 5 a.m. on Oct. 11, Anita turned on the television to see that Kiran, at age 35, had become the youngest woman ever to win the Booker. "I wanted it so much...
Thank the cruel, vengeful gods for Cormac McCarthy, who delivers a much more comprehensive apocalypse in The Road (Knopf; 241 pages), which is about half the length of Thirteen Moons but 20 times as ruthless. The scenario: a man and his son push a shopping cart with a wiggly wheel through a landscape from which all plant and animal life has been scoured by some undefined but definitive calamity--we know only of "a long shear of light and then a series of low concussions" that left survivors "sitting on the sidewalk in the dawn half immolate and smoking...
...publicly acknowledged is that the agency halted the "special interrogations" in its secret prisons more than nine months ago. People briefed on the matter tell TIME that the agency backed away from its program in December 2005 as Congress passed an amendment to the 2006 defense bill banning "cruel, inhuman or degrading" treatment of prisoners in U.S. custody. According to other U.S. officials, then CIA Director Porter Goss feared that the amendment, sponsored by McCain, might undercut the legal authority for CIA interrogations. So Goss put those procedures on hold while seeking a legal opinion from the Justice Department...