Word: hates
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...Francisco Romo Adanero, a sociologist at Madrid's Catholic University of San Carlos, would respectfully disagree. He worries that the rush to abandon Spain's established ways undermines its future. "There is a terrible hate for tradition," says Romo. "[Spaniards] today are taught that if you're a person of these times you must renounce the past...
...Monday, police in the small, liberal town of Oxnard, CA, declared last week’s school shooting of a 15-year-old boy to be a hate-crime, motivated by the victim’s sexuality. The boy, Lawrence King, recently came out as gay to his peers at his junior high school. A few weeks later, a classmate shot him dead...
...Residents expressed shock and horror, both at the sudden presence of such a gruesome hate crime in their midst and, most of all (and understandably), at the age of those involved...
...incident is faintly reminiscent of one of America’s most notorious hate crimes, the 1993 murder of Brandon Teena. An adult when he was murdered, Teena had endured bullying throughout his life for his gender transgressions. Born female he began, at a young age, to identify and live as a man. When an adult he moved to the small Nebraska town of Falls City, hoping to live peacefully as a man and, perhaps at some point, to undergo sex change surgery. Teena dated women and befriended guys successfully, until a couple of his friends discovered his secret. Aghast...
...Reiss roused his audience into laughter with his deadpan jokes, comic timing, and clips from ‘The Simpsons’ and his new show ‘Queer Duck.’ He also shared his views on the current president (“Oh, I hate that leaky diaper of a man. He’s Satan with a learning disorder.”) and explained how oxymorons work (“for those of you who are legacies”). Reiss said that half of the Simpsons writers are Harvard graduates, an assertion that caused...