Word: drunken
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...placed on women's honor and chastity, young boys are often considered fair game for sex. Indeed, according to Ahmed Rashid, a Pakistani author and expert on the Taliban's rise, the religious movement, with its strict emphasis on law and order, started in the early 1990s after a drunken commander picked up one of Mullah Mohammed Omar's young seminarians and performed a mock, public wedding with the youth. After the abused student staggered back to the madrasah, Omar swore revenge and his movement quickly swept away the criminal warlords...
...appropriately be assigned to the lazy few who are on state benefits without good cause - benefits provided by the taxes paid by the public, including a vast number of immigrants. It's ironic that when those same moaning scroungers end up in the emergency ward with injuries from a drunken fight, they are cared for by foreign-born nurses and doctors. People need to learn more about the prejudices they so steadfastly harbor. Martin Webb Reading, England Back-Channel Chats Your report "Talking With The Enemy" described secret meetings between U.S. negotiators and Iraqi insurgents [Feb. 28]. A cease-fire...
...monster but as a human being. She talked with him. She told her story--how her husband had been stabbed in a dispute and had died in her arms, how she then had developed a drug habit, had been caught for speeding and drunken driving, had been arrested for assault (the charges were dropped), had ceded custody of her young daughter to her aunt. She showed him her wounds as a human being. And she saw in that man his own wounded soul...
...Night Then: With the Golden brothers. I love Chris and Justin—I spend so much time in the Quad with those boys. The last stop before we head back to our rooms is always the Delphic. And then it’s making Easy Mac for my drunken friends...
...Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood should be on every college student’s personal syllabus. I devoured—cover to cover—it more quickly than one of my mother’s chocolate treats. And now I am passing it on to everyone I know...