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...described “Embedded Live!” as “poisonous, a production-length conspiracy, guilty of the very sins it attributes to the ‘cabal’ that it claims to expose.”But Robbins believes that national surveys showing American disdain for the war to be at a high point signify that the public is increasingly on his side. “The American people have been lied to, and they know it now,” he says.Despite the show’s political subject matter, Robbins says his reasons...
...felt forced to step in the name of love, but I won’t deny my accompanying discomfort or my subsequent disgust. Who doesn’t feel slightly embarrassed pressed up against their partner, hands stuck to a sweaty back, and onlookers watching on with slight disdain? Dancing today, if you can call it that, has become so mortifying even the semantics make me cringe. Grinding sounds like factory lingo, the month before MCATs, or an ancient activity involving maize. Bumping reminds me of a carnival ride or a skin disease, both of which...
...Perhaps, but Marie-Claude Vitali, a long-time resident of northern Blois who has worked for nearly 30 years to help locals help themselves, says the mutual accusation and disdain dividing French society from the banlieues must give way to common cause if future violence is to be avoided. "Thirty years of uninterrupted policy errors on integration must end with France accepting the various cultures that now exist within French society - including French-born people who aren't the immigrants their parents are, yet not culturally French either," says the ebullient Vitali. Inspired and driven teachers, more experienced cops...
...talking man-advertisements. Fee claimed that the Square’s newest residents “drew his ire with unprecedented preposterousness.” Although Bensassi claims that the bank didn’t receive negative comments about its atypical advertising approach, many students have expressed disdain. “It was either us or the machine, and I’m glad man has come out on top,” says Daniel K. Bilotti ’09. Even Frenchie, a woman who lives in the Square, claims “Too many people were getting disturbed...
...spit at him and kill him as a demon, or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher." That passage, with its anvil-chorus cadence and utter disdain for any diminution of Christ's divinity in favor of his more mortal aspects, may not be Lewis' most subtle, but it is emblematic of his lucidity and certitude...