Word: detestability
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...this mix is Frist. Having said he'd bring up his own, tough counterpart to the House bill for a vote, the presidential hopeful is now forced to allow consideration of a guest worker program that has all the hallmarks of the amnesty his potential supporters on the right detest. Emerging from the elevator banks in the Dirksen building as the last of the jubilant business lobbyists was leaving and walking slowly down the hall toward a meeting with the rest of the Republican leadership and Senator Specter, Frist admitted the committee vote had altered his plans: "I'm sure...
...Suha's outburst came after she learned that Arafat signed over at least $800 million to the government of the Palestinian Authority two years ago. Several hundred million dollars more in cash for the P.L.O. and Arafat's Fatah faction devolved to the new leaders of those groups, who detest Suha. Top Palestinian officials say Suha wants the new chief of the P.L.O., Mahmoud Abbas, and Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei to give her money out of the P.L.O.'s party coffers. But the organization is not as flush as it once was. A senior P.L.O. official says "they...
Moore may detest Bush, but at least Moore supports gun control. In the novella Checkpoint by Nicholson Baker, below, a man named Jay, who has a gun, sits in a hotel room and hashes out a plan to assassinate Bush. (It's illegal to threaten the President in real life but not in fiction.) The title refers to a real incident in which an Iraqi family was gunned down by U.S. troops at a checkpoint. In the graphic novel In the Shadow of No Towers by Art Spiegelman (Maus), the cartoonist ruminates on feeling equally terrorized by al-Qaeda...
...population of Iraq consists mainly of Shi'ites, Sunnis and Kurds?three groups who detest each other. Perhaps the only unifying factor in Iraq is a hatred of the West. For 30 years, Iraqi citizens were suppressed by a brutal dictator who murdered them by the thousands and involved them in ruinous wars while plundering the country for his personal benefit. How can the coalition ever hope to "restore" democracy in Iraq, when it is doubtful that it ever existed there? The solution for the U.S. and its allies is to put a new dictator in charge and go home...
Realistically, we can only detest so many individuals. Between three and five is reasonable. Less than three is absurd; can there be fewer than three people in your life that irritate you to no end? More than five, however, and you start to tread into dangerously anti-social territory, and people start hating...