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...pack up my final boxes for my move from Shanghai, I will certainly remember the disgust I felt as I read the text message informing me of Chen's sentencing. He will probably be released around the time I finish my next assignment for TIME in Southeast Asia. But I will also remember Yuan's conviction that the outside world must know what is going on in Linyi so it can help change things for the better. Hers is a faith based on a system that has not yet taken root in her homeland - one in which justice would consistently...
...Disgusted by the country's traditional political class, voters in 2002 turned in droves to the Workers Party, and installed the socialist former blue-collar worker Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as president. But last year, Lula's reputation as a politician above reproach was shattered when investigators found that his government had handed out envelopes stuffed with cash to anyone who would support it in Congress. When it was revealed last month that scores of the country's deputies were skimming money off government contracts to purchase ambulances, it was hard for the citizenry to work up anything more...
...terrorist attacks of 9/11 were an assault as much on America's pop culture as on its people. Islamic radicals' disgust for consumer America runs as deep as their hate of its policies. "We love death. The U.S. loves life," Osama bin Laden famously said after 9/11, but an Afghan militant perhaps made the point better: "The Americans love Pepsi-Cola. We love death." The sweet, decay-promoting fruits of the American pleasure machine are, to fundamentalists, a threat to their way of life as powerful as any aggressor's army...
...Hudson). He means to be helpful, but continually screws up in ways that are meant to be funny, but are, in fact, so stupid and vulgar that I can't bear to write them down here. Suffice it to say that they generally involve bodily needs and functions that disgust his hosts - not to mention us, watching...
...AHMAD'S DISGUST WITH WESTERN CIVILIZATION MAPS NEATLY--NOT TOO NEATLY BUT MORE NEATLY THAN YOU'D EXPECT--ONTO THE CRITIQUE OF LATE 20TH CENTURY AMERICA THAT WE SAW IN THE RABBIT BOOKS: THE DISGUST WITH JUNK FOOD AND OBESITY AND POP CULTURE. And waste, the American waste. I find myself very disturbed lately by the fact that restaurants give you more than any sane person would want to eat, and food is packaged in bigger and bigger containers now so that you try to buy a mere quart of ginger ale and you have to buy a gallon...