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Scott's proposals for what is known as donor servicing, which she explicitly characterized as an effort to build a base for the 1996 campaign, were so outrageous that the White House did not bother to try to defend them. Presidential spokesman Michael McCurry showed his disdain from the briefing room podium, where he described Scott as "quite voluble" and added, "I think Marsha Scott may have had many dreams, but the important thing is what happened...
Hale acknowledges that it was only natural for our ancestors to be apprehensive about the fiery apparitions in the night sky. But he is impatient with their modern counterparts, who should know better. "I ask readers to treat all these irresponsible reports with the disdain they deserve," he says, "and instead enjoy the beauty of the comet for its own sake...
...violence, prison guards also regularly beat inmates with steel cables, wrapped them in lighted fuses and then left them to soak in vats of water. While the gruesome accounts did not appear to faze the four defendants, who spent their time doodling with pencils or rolling their eyes in disdain, the trial was not without its surprises. Branislav Tapuskovic, the ethnic Serb lawyer for Croatian defendant Zdravko Mucic, claimed that his client had taken the job as camp commander solely out of a humanitarian desire to increase food supplies and release Serb prisoners. "Mucic was trying to help the people...
Therefore, the killing of a black child by a white driver was not an isolated incident in the lives of the black people in Brooklyn or anywhere else in America. Rather, it appeared to blacks as another example--based upon both history and direct experience--of the utter disdain and disrespect with which black lives are regarded in this country. Crown Heights did not happen over night. The black rage in response to the death of a child and the Jewish fear in response to the murder of a man were many years in the making. That fact does...
...also dreaded being asked about the absence of disdain in the press toward the publishers that, according to one report, made competing offers to Morris after his involvement with Sherry Rowlands was revealed--inspiring some writers I know to imagine that if they ever got caught with a hooker in a cheap motel they'd be able to say to their wives, "I was only trying to get a bigger advance...