Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Only the government could think of obesity as a new entitlement. Doesn't anyone stop to think what the creation of another aggrieved group will mean to the already bursting-at-the-seams body politic? Or did anyone fast-forward to the prospect of adjudicating whether a person is fat enough to park in a handicapped space at the shopping mall or should continue to get preferential seating on airplanes? "There is not a legal cure for every wrong," says Fred Siegal, a political science professor at Cooper Union. "This is litigiousness run wild...
Then there is intent. In September, California's Supreme Court ruled that a health-food store owner could not reject a job applicant if her fatness was the result of a faulty metabolism or a psychological systemic problem, but could if it was the person's fault. Imagine the cottage industry of fat experts, the obesity counselors, next door to the sexual-harassment ! counselors, at the office, trying to decide whether someone is fat by predisposition or from eating too much Haagen-Dazs...
...struggle for a tolerant society -- not only one in which the big racial injustices are cured but one in which the strong do not prey on the weak, the beautiful do not insult the ugly and the thin do not prevail over the fat -- is a worthy goal. But neither resources nor public sympathy is limitless. Treating the discrimination against someone who is fat alongside that of someone who is a paraplegic is part of an effort by special-interest groups to make all suffering equal so that all remedies will be. It is a trend that would make...
...author's new book destroys itself before the reader's eyes, as a fascinating popular history battles without success to free itself from a fat, tedious novel. What is interesting here -- Wouk is right about this -- is the improbable succession of bluffs and heroics by which the new and perilously weak Jewish state managed to defend itself. But the writer, now 78, chooses to deal with Israel's wars, and the confounding historical intricacies that shaped them, on a level that allows only slightly more subtlety than a grade- school Thanksgiving pageant...
...Shellac "Doris" 2. Bikini Kill "Star-Bellied Boy" 3. Kudgel "Chicken Pump" 4. Rancid Hell Spawn "Axe Hore" 5. Thinking Fellers "Undertakers" 6. Guitar Wolf "Red Rockabilly" 7. Element of Crime "Jaws All Ism" 8. Mecca Normal "Echo" 9. Milkmine "Split Tail" 10. Gaunt "Good Bad Happy Sad" 11. Fat Day "Delicate Cutter" 12. Huggy Bear "Pansy Twist" 13. Hammerhead "Evil Twin" 14. The Ex with Tom Cora "Everything and Me" 15. Disorder "Violent Crime" 16. Mad Scene "Holding Pattern" 17. Bugskull "What Shall I Give to the King?" 18. The Smiles "Lions on the Prowl" 19. Ampersands "Postcards...