Word: hates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...knowledge of American life, only to be confronted by crime, unemployment and blacks who called them gooks. The Hmong, though, had been taught one thing about America: do not trust black people. When the teacher of an elementary school English class attempted to explain the meaning of the word hate, the class of young Laotians responded that they knew what they hated: blacks. The mutual ignorance spurred violence. Some of the Hmong were threatened in the streets. In a fight between a group of Hmong and several blacks, one Hmong had both his legs broken and his skull fractured. Less...
...offices, homes and supermarkets, Coke's decision to change for the first time in 99 years the taste of the world's best-selling soft drink has become a universal conversation topic, like the weather or money or love. Everyone has an opinion: some like the new Coke, some hate it, others do not care at all. Some believe Coca-Cola's strategists made the marketing coup of the decade, others call it a monumental blunder...
...flag. The new drink, they say, is nerdy and has none of the old Coke's snap. Executives at Coca-Cola headquarters in Atlanta say they get 1,500 calls a day, almost four times the normal volume. Most of the callers, says Coke, are "concerned." And how. "I hate the new stuff," says Sharlotte Donnelly, 36, an anthropologist in Cincinnati. "It's too sweet. It tastes like Pepsi." Says Wendy Koskela, 35, vice president of an insurance brokerage in San Francisco: "Real Coke had punch. This tastes almost like it's flat...
...Testament condemns such a view as sinful. "Judge not that ye be not judged," Jesus said. "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you." St. Paul decried the hunger for revenge as a blasphemy. "Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. Therefore, if thine enemy hunger, feed him." One can admire these teachings, and yet sometimes find them impossible to accept, or act upon. Must one not make an exception in the case of someone as vile as Mengele? Would mercy toward him not mock his victims...
...hate a day when I sleep till one." Nadkarni says, but he rarely rests so much. He has played three years for the Harvard Classes, a barn-storming campus basketball club. After a frustrating freshman year playing with Harvard's IV team "in front of only three fans." Nadkarni jumped to the Classics and even assumed coaching responsibilities, handling the delicate task of coaching ex-varsity players with his JV background...