Word: discomforting
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...have to be so in-your-face about it.” Or how about, “Homosexuality doesn’t bother me, I just don’t really want to see it on my way to class.” Tolerance never challenges the visceral discomfort and silent disgust which undergird these statements. Nor does it engage with the privilege accorded to heterosexual public displays of affection—whether in the mass media queer students have been ingesting since birth or on the footpaths through Harvard Yard which we walk every day. So, taking...
...discomfort was also discernible among some Arab leaders, who resent Washington's talk of remapping the Middle East. Jordanian Foreign Minister Marwan Muasher told TIME that Arab anger is not likely to subside until Washington seriously addresses the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. "If the U.S. doesn't pay attention to the peace process," he said, "it cannot hope to turn around the way it is perceived...
...truly serious philosophical problem," wrote Albert Camus, "and that is suicide." It never fails to puzzle society when someone claims to have solved it. On March 31, Britons Robert and Jennifer Stokes flew to Zurich to kill themselves with the help of professionals. The Stokes were in chronic discomfort - Jennifer, 53, suffered from diabetes and Robert, 59, was epileptic - and both reportedly were prone to depression. But neither was terminally ill, according to relatives. In Zurich, the Stokes were greeted by staff members from Dignitas, an assisted-suicide group in Switzerland, where the practice is legal - for patients suffering "intolerable...
...apparently this discomfort doesn’t extend to George Bryant and his colleague Owen, who were just heading out to sell copies of The Revolutionary Worker newspaper...
...Southern Discomfort...