Word: hating
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Many Burmese who hate the regime also lament their inability to change it. "We are rubbish," says a student in Mandalay. "Our tradition and our religion prevent us from getting things done," says a Rangoon intellectual. The pacific teachings of Theravada Buddhism do not, for example, allow self- immolation of the sort practiced by protesting Vietnamese monks in the 1960s...
...hate fashion too. It's a tyrannical muse, demanding time, energy, money, discomfort. There are mornings when I look at my well-stocked closets and have nothing to wear. My husband can't understand this. The only time he has nothing to wear is when all his shirts are at the laundry. There is something so enviously simple about male dressing: a suit, a shirt, a tie. Our notions of how these should look don't change much with the seasons, and barely with the generations. So how wrong can a man go? How unattractive can he feel...
...miniskirts; I remember trying to bend and sit without total exposure, and I remember how cold it was. And yet, as I dragged out my winter clothes, my hems looked downright dowdy. I'm busy shortening them again. See what a betrayer is the fashion muse? I hate it. I love...
Victorious lawyer Morris Dees, whose Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center specializes in suing hate groups, vows to try to collect every penny in order to close down WAR, its newspaper, cable TV show, and 23 telephone hot lines. In a similar $7 million lawsuit in Alabama three years ago, Dees managed to bankrupt the United Klans of America for its role in instigating the shooting and hanging of a black youth. Said Dees of his latest victory: "The jury has spoken loud and clear that in this country the First Amendment guarantees the right to hate people...
George Bush has always had a love-hate relationship with political handlers. The President despised the way aides to Ronald Reagan wantonly stage-managed the older man's affairs. But Bush relied heavily on advisers during the 1988 campaign, particularly when he was bogged down or distracted. Last week, as Bush tried to extricate himself from the budget mess, several of his closest pals conspired to rescue their leader. The plans, however, differed: Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher told Bush to veto the budget plan and run hard against Democrats. Secretary of State James Baker opined, "Get out of this...