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When he visits the West Los Angeles neighborhood where he grew up, Charles Levan feels sadness and disdain. One by one, the charming two- and three-bedroom houses that decorated the streets of his childhood are being bulldozed and replaced with bloated mansions on tiny lots. "Half the houses on our block have been leveled," says Levan, 34. "The thought of that happening to my house tugs at my heartstrings...
Kids who choose to buck traditional fashion or behavior norms had better learn to tolerate stares, taunts and other public disdain. Those who dress idiosyncratically do so to make a statement and may not be received in lovey-dovey, p.c. ways. As a parent who encourages individuality, I suggest that if your child says he or she is being bullied, do more than empathize. Look into the situation before reporting the antagonist. There are at least two sides to every story...
...watched the video for this song a lot in 1995, back when I was morbidly obese and vaguely homosexual. The lyrics have an interesting idea—Madonna using theatrical metaphors to disdain an overblown lover—but it goes on for an obscene five and a half minutes. And I mean, does anyone ever really believe these chanteuses when they complain about having their hearts broken? The show is over, Madonna. Say goodbye. Time to get preggers...
While Threshie limited the paper's disdain for excessive government interference to the editorial page, Editor Anderson cleaned up the paper's format by reducing the cluttered eight-column pages to six and laying out stories in easy-to-read rectangular units instead of the traditional vertical strips. Anderson also ran much more news about Orange County, an 800-sq.-mi. sprawl of 26 municipalities and scores of towns, with a population of more than 2 million...
More importantly, our protest did not “demonstrate disdain for diversity of opinion.” The event was a recruitment meeting, not a debate. The CIA and DHS representatives were not there to offer “opinions” or “ideas,” but rather to lure talented Harvard students into exciting careers with agencies for which torture, mass deportations, assassinations, and other violations of human rights are standard practices. I was there to inform others of these practices (with a fact sheet we handed to everyone in attendance), express my disgust...