Word: insultable
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...part of the world where Pan-Arabism is still the drug of choice among Muslims and where the state of Israel is despised most of all not for denying the Palestinians a homeland but for being an insult to Islam itself, saviors are much in demand...
...being set up for a scam that involves betrayal and homicide. In The Blue Knight and The Choirboys, Wambaugh demonstrated a Panasonic ear for cop patois. In his latest work, the tension sometimes sags, but the dialogue lingers in the ear: "An unsolved murder is like . . . an insult to me personally, not jist to the corpse...
Nonetheless, anyone who has ever endured a public insult can understand why juries act as they do. Words hurt. Juries cannot alleviate pain, but they can, for vengeance's sake, exact a pound of flesh. Their motivation for doing so is reinforced by the perceived indifference of the press to individuals' rights and sensibilities. Though many newspapers have established corrections policies, few offer the aggrieved a hearing before an impartial arbiter. No arbitration process will stave off all lawsuits, of course. But until more news organizations create other remedies for the aggrieved, they and their attorneys will constantly...
...fast-growing years, in which company revenues doubled. And after Andre Schiffrin left in February as head of Random House's esteemed Pantheon division, where profit had always been secondary to literary eclat, company officials hastened to portray him as fiscally incompetent. In April, as if to underscore the insult, Pantheon named a new executive editor, Erroll McDonald, 36, who in an op-ed column for the New York Times had scorned a pro-Schiffrin protest rally organized by writers and editors...
Harvard found itself down, 8-0, before putting two on the board in the bottom of the fifth. The Crimson tallied one run in each of the final two frames, but the Princeton's four runs in the top of the seventh added insult to injury. Harvard sent five pitchers to the mound in the first game and gave up a total of 13 hits...