Word: heartlessly
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AIDS victims and people associated with them experience widespread discrimination, some of it heartless, some of it phobic. In New York City, Dr. Joseph Sonnabend was served with an eviction notice by the co-op board in the building where he practiced. "I treated people with AIDS," he explained. "People in the building didn't like AIDS patients walking through the lobby." In New Orleans, Johnny Greene, a writer, was fired from an editing job with McDermott International Inc. after writing an article for PEOPLE magazine about his own suspected case of AIDS. "They just walked in and said...
...level of outrage against reality-show contestant Jen Schefft, you'd think she'd had sex with an underage schoolboy or walked out on her husband and kids. "I hate her," read a post on realitytvworld.com "She deserves to die an old maid!" read another on America Online. Labeled "heartless," "insecure," "fake," "totally messed up" and a "spoiled, self-serving, gold-digging sorority chick," the event planner from Chicago didn't bother with doing the usual round of postshow interviews...
...story of the Rwandan genocide casts most UN apparatchiks as heartless bureaucrats. Current UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan—then head of the organization’s peacekeeping department—squashed an operation that would have seized Hutu extremists’ weapons caches. (Although that didn’t stop Harvard from awarding Annan an honorary degree earlier this year...
...hits you, a powerful and astonishingly new experience. Here are the well-known images - most of them larger than you expect. Nighthawks has a room almost to itself. Details like the salt shakers on the counter pop out at you; the window frame is vivid green, the interior a heartless yellow. The background is rich: an empty shop front emerges from the blue depths. But "Edward Hopper" - Britain's first big show of his work in more than 20 years, with around 70 drawings and paintings - demonstrates that Hopper's vision extends far beyond that lonely diner. The show, which...
...were trained to protect and defend their people tuck tail and run. Not one American life is worth the so-called liberation of Iraq. If the Iraqis don't want to defend their country, why should we? How can you win the hearts and minds of the heartless and mindless? MARIE HARFOUSH Claremont, Calif...