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...nominating his personal lawyer for a job on the United States Supreme Court," she said. "You don't have your personal accountant replace Alan Greenspan. It's embarrassing to hear people describe this as if this is the best woman Bush could get." Veteran conservative activist Paul Weyrich saw insult in the assumption that Bush's followers wouldn't dare question his choice. "They are so used to conservatives falling in line, rolling over and playing dead--that's what they expected," he said...
What’s old about the book is its timeless message, one that we hear over and over and somehow manage to forget every time. Having read countless tragic stories of other wars, we know what to expect. War is terrible, and those who romanticize it insult those who give their lives...
...issue of its European edition, the following letter: "I was rather disappointed to see a dvd in your magazine [June 6] accompanying a Turkish ad that portrayed Armenians as terrorists and the Armenian genocide as a myth. Time has a good reputation for unbiased reporting. The dvd is an insult to all Armenians across the world." The letter was signed Gagik Mikaelian, Chicago. The editors added the following answer: "Time is an independent newsmagazine and does not endorse the views of any organization or government. We regret any offense caused by the advertisement...
...looked around me, noticing that at this event, “Reverential Night at Cape Coast Castle,” many white faces filled the crowd. I thought about the Ghanaian’s insult to the Frenchman and what it must have felt like for the numerous white people who were present at this event geared toward Africans and members of the African Diaspora. Instead of guessing at their thoughts, I began to ask questions...
...course is disappointingly pointless for first-year students, it is an insult to anyone else. By the time they are sophomores or juniors, students have had the chance to savor much more sophisticated courses. Atlas says, “History 10a remains one of the most disappointing classes I have taken at Harvard. I enrolled hoping for an opportunity to understand the historical foundation of the modern periods that I study, but instead found a disorganized course that watered down 2,000 years of the past into an unrecognizable mess.” Most upperclassmen also perceive that the ideals...