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...Fuqua had a discerning vision; Schickel seems to lack just that. Jason Tsai London Dishonorable Men "Marked Women" [July 26], on the rash of honor killings committed by Iraqi men against female family members suspected of straying from traditional rules of chastity, left me overcome with feelings of outrage, disgust and sadness. My beautiful 16-year-old daughter died in a car accident several years ago, and her loss continues to bring our family indescribable pain. I know that her father and brother would give their lives in a heartbeat if doing so would bring her back. That fathers...
...garden, the imposing grave of Richard and his wife Cosima is unmarked. Who else could be buried here, after all? After a day of failing to share the passion, I head back to my pension with a sense of disgust. The connection between Wagner’s son and the Nazis is particularly appalling, and makes me discount the whole musical phenomenon as folly, an incomprehensible collective mistake...
...seats for itself in the new assembly. Then he was told?incorrectly, it turned out?that other spots in the assembly would be set aside for women and members of the conference-organizing committee. After enduring a few days of chaos, Abu Tbikh quit Najaf's caucus in disgust. "This conference was not legitimate," he said. "That's not democracy...
...their stories will run plagues every journalist; a front page at 6 p.m. can be on page five an hour later. Science writer Leigh Dayton has been lobbying for her exclusive piece on koala leukemia to run; when it's mentioned at conference, someone asks with slight disgust, "Does the koala look like it's got a disease?" The piece makes it in a day later; the picture doesn't. Seeing your stories cut or killed, as Dayton knows after 18 years in journalism, is part of the job. "It's a solid story," she says. "But when they...
...qualified his disparaging remarks because he hadn't observed blacks in their natural state of freedom in Africa, Jefferson's presentation leaves no doubt that he, like a typical white person of the 18th century, believed in white supremacy. Consider Abigail Adams, who upon seeing Othello expressed her "disgust and horror" at the thought of a black man touching a white woman. And the Jefferson-Hemings connection places Jefferson firmly within the world of Southern plantation society, where the rules of the game featured public denunciations of "amalgamation" but private practice of it at all levels of white society...