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...name and epigraph from Dante, is Rwanda, Zaire, Chechnya and Kosovo. It is gruesome stuff, some of the most grisly and horrifying photography I have ever seen, and certainly not right for you if your tastes fall on the squeamish side of Diane Arbus. Nachtwey surpasses in pure disgust value even Joel-Peter Witkin, who is known for raiding Mexican morgues in search of subjects. In one Nachtwey photograph taken in Rwanda in 1994, a carcass lies rotting in front of a church; the fact that it hasn't been removed hints that there are more nearby, which of course...
...that Disney wins prizes for anything other than superior corporate mud wrestling. By provoking Time Warner into a foolhardy act that outraged both companies' customers, Disney invited onlookers--from channel surfers to Washington watchdogs--to turn away in disgust. Jeffrey Chester, executive director of the Center for Media Education, a Washington advocacy group, says, "Disney and Time Warner deserve a consumer award. They have taken an issue that was the preserve of techies and lobbyists and thrown it onto the front page...
...possibility of other religions and other views of religion. Students saw themselves are impartial judges who could rationally tackle the question of "Does God exist? What happens if He does/does not?" However, this was not the case. I would meet more and more students with anti-God sentiment: a disgust with religion and people who "bought into that myth." This opposition to religion seemed to spring from Harvard itself, as I heard this theme repeated subtly in classes, meals, and meetings. Again I was disheartened, until I realized a key misconception Harvard students have of religion...
Many of the officers in Gatto's environmental unit have left the department in disgust, and they told me that the city's persecution campaign was the reason. Gatto fights on with an anemic detail of three green recruits, ever hoping for the day when the city government cares as much about clean water as he does. He is suing the city for harassment and intimidation...
...Patrick Bateman, a moneyman with a true killer instinct: mergers and acquisitions become murders and executions. "I have all the characteristics of a human being," Patrick (Christian Bale) says in Mary Harron's handsome, icily funny film version, "but not a single identifiable human emotion, except for greed and disgust...