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This was the real insult--not to Reagan but to his political heirs. By not seeking their blessing, CBS sent the message: You do not matter enough for us to fear you. Step on political operatives' Guccis, insult their mothers, but never, ever imply that they lack clout. By beating CBS, the network's foes helped themselves--online muckraker Matt Drudge modestly declared on MSNBC that the incident marked "the beginning of a second media century." But their defense of Reagan was at best contradictory and at worst insulting: 1) Reagan is a titan who saved America and freedom...
...final insult was the fact that other people who had swiped in at, say, 7:14 p.m. had full privileges to not only get food, but continue getting food until at least 7:20 p.m. If there had been a clear cap on when anyone could get food, whether it wereseconds or not, then Dartboard might understand. After all, there are shifts that dining hall employees are eager to leave, and having yet another undergraduate asking to go in past the designated meal time is a burden...
...company policy explicitly forbids franchise owners from donating surplus food items. “If we don’t think it’s fit enough to sell to our paying customers,” she explains, “then we don’t want to insult people with food that we would throw away otherwise. And it’s not something that we would donate to people...
...This was the real insult - not to Reagan but to his political heirs. By not seeking their blessing, CBS sent the message: You do not matter enough for us to fear you. Step on political operatives' Guccis, insult their mothers, but never, ever imply that they lack clout. By beating CBS, the network's foes helped themselves - online muckraker Matt Drudge modestly declared on MSNBC that the incident marked "the beginning of a second media century." But their defense of Reagan was at best contradictory and at worst insulting: 1) Reagan is a titan who saved America and freedom...
...textbooks. Students are encouraged to remember Japan's unwillingness to apologize candidly for its wartime behavior. Little wonder that Li Li, a 21-year-old history student at Northwest who did not see the Japanese skit, said she felt that "clearly the offense was deliberate. They designed it to insult the audience. No one, including the dancers themselves, could have found the skit funny." The Xi'an riots provide only the most recent evidence of the hostility and distrust some Chinese still harbor toward their neighbors to the East. In September, Chinese Internet chat rooms were inflamed over an orgy...