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...injury to insult, McCluskey left the game towards the end of the first half feeling ill, further depleting the team's already ravaged front line...
YOUR ARTICLE ON CLIMATE CHANGE IS AN insult to the mainstream of scientists who have studied the issue. Yes, there are uncertainties as to the magnitude of cause and effect. And yes, there is some disagreement on specific rises in temperatures and rainfall. But to just throw up your hands and say it is too late to do anything will only allow the preventable to happen. HOWARD MEAD Cinnaminson, New Jersey...
...POWELL? THE REST OF the country is talking about nothing else, yet those who would lead us are talking about anything but. As the O.J. verdict exposes America's great racial divide, public figures capable of talking forever have become minimalists. Their comments are worse than unsatisfying. They insult our intelligence and fuel our disgust with the system. "Respect" the jury's decision and pray for the victims' families, says Clinton. Avoid "a huge national debate and move on," says Powell. "We need a healing period to find ways to understand each other and bring us together," says Dole...
...World Conference on Women held in Beijing deserved the harassment they got [WOMEN'S RIGHTS, Sept. 18]. They should have protested from the beginning that the meeting had been located in a country with a government so disgraced that nothing shames it anymore. The whole event has been an insult to womanhood, a parody of a conference. The joke was played by Beijing dictators but permitted by those who attended. Everybody seemed to cajole the Chinese bully, hoping he would stomp on heads more gently. The intimidator did just the opposite. Are we waiting until the Chinese bully grows...
Berkley's overwrought performance as Nomi is the final insult. The former "Saved By The Bell" actress makes you long for the wit and subtlety of Sharon Stone's crotch-flashing in "Basic Instinct." Berkley's version of the cliched femme fatale is all pants and snarls, without a hint of irony. As for the male characters, they remain locked in even more unsavory cliches: pockmarked pimp, hustler-with-a-heart-of-gold...