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Keillor described people in public life as "well-mannered and respectful." Well-mannered and respectful politicians? Hardly. Sarcasm and ridicule are the manners most often employed. In fact, Keillor's Essay is little more than disdain and hardly an example of civility and good breeding. There's nothing factual in his piece, only ambiguous allegations of how "all" Minnesotans feel about former Governor Ventura. BRIAN TRACEY Fort Wayne...
...they were bewildered by her insistence on being American because she was born in that country. I am a naturalized U.S. citizen, and at a conference 15 years ago, I was asked by another participant where I was from. When I answered "Buffalo, New York," he responded with disdain on his face, mumbling something not too polite. The encounter definitely strengthened the "Chineseness" inside me. It is not easy to be an American with a Chinese face, even in America! Y.K. Leung Hong Kong...
...purpose seems to have passed. The war is over, sort of, an election looms, and the President has once again orphaned the government--it's not ours anymore, and certainly not his. Bush, who seemed so focused when it came to kicking out Saddam, has reverted to his casual disdain for the nonmilitary aspects of federal governance. He has passed another tax cut, filled with trickery and guaranteed to run up huge deficits. And he has lost his way in Iraq, allowing the less dramatic but far more challenging postwar period to become a dangerous mess...
Despite her disdain for Radcliffe’s social environment, Watkins says she benefited intellectually from the academics...
...purpose seems to have passed. The war is over, sort of, an election looms, and the President has once again orphaned the government - it's not ours anymore, and certainly not his. Bush, who seemed so focused when it came to kicking out Saddam, has reverted to his casual disdain for the nonmilitary aspects of federal governance. He has passed another tax cut, filled with trickery and guaranteed to run up huge deficits. And he has lost his way in Iraq, allowing the less dramatic but far more challenging postwar period to become a dangerous mess...