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Imagine opening The Crimson opinion page to find a cartoon depicting 4000 rioting Palestinians throwing boulders down onto the heads of Jews worshipping during the Sukkot holiday at the Western Wall in Jerusalem. Now imagine the caption reading,"Dome of the ROCK indeed...". Such a cartoon would be an insult to Islam and to the Muslim holy site in Jerusalem. I would hope that it never be printed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cartoon Offends | 10/18/1990 | See Source »

...cheapens not only the Jewish holy site, but also the less of life that has occurred there. Responsibility for the recent complex tragedy in Jerusalem cannot be placed on any one side. Uninformed, inflammatory political cartoons do nothing but add insult to injury. Glen Schwaber...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cartoon Offends | 10/18/1990 | See Source »

...apparent when children grow older, unloved and self-hating. "You can tell kids you love 'em," says April, a runaway in Hollywood. "But that's not the same as showing them. Broken promises is really what tears your heart apart." For April there is not much difference between insult and injury. "Beating kids will hurt kids. Sexual abuse will hurt a kid. But verbal abuse is the worst. I've had all three. If you're not strong enough as a person, and they've been telling you this all your life, that you can never amount to anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shameful Bequests to The Next Generation | 10/8/1990 | See Source »

...drunk. Gottwald already had a fondness for drink, so Stalin didn't have to work very hard at getting him drunk. I remember Gottwald saying, "Comrade Stalin, why are your people stealing our technical secrets? They steal everything they can. We can see what's happening. It's an insult to us. We have no secrets from you. If you need some new technology or advanced designs, just say so and we'll give them to you. That would be much better. We are fully prepared to become part of the Soviet Union. I am asking you, Comrade Stalin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Khrushchev's Secret Tapes | 10/1/1990 | See Source »

Talk about adding insult to injury. As if the initial S&L scandal were not outrageous enough, the government reports that, thanks to sweetheart deals handed to federally subsidized fat cats, the bailout program will cost taxpayers tens of billions more than it might have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The $70 Billion Sellout | 10/1/1990 | See Source »

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