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HUSSAINI: It is a fact that I cannot return. The Israeli government would allow me to visit for two months, and then I have to leave. That is, of course, the greatest insult. So when you talk about armed struggle and so on, the Israelis have used armed struggle-violence-to occupy these territories. If you are against armed struggle, you should condemn the Israeli army...
Bertrand Russell insisted on living in the best of all possible worlds and responded to imperfection as if it were a personal insult to his intelligence. That stubbornness made him the pain in the neck par excellence of modern times. Or perhaps, as Tait speculates, it made him a sort of saint - "God's gad fly, sent to challenge the smugness of the churches with a righteousness greater than their...
Harvard offers Muhammad Ali the Norton Lectureship in Poetry, but Ali turns it down. "It's an insult!" he says. "Next they're gonna gimme a Wepner Lectureship...
...Colony. Such is the prickly mood in Ottawa that the government spied insult where none, clearly, was intended. Responding to questions in Parliament, Trudeau said that he was "surprised that an experienced diplomat like Mr. Porter would not find other channels for expressing [his] views." After Trudeau brought down the House by declaring "we are not a colony of the U.S.," New Democratic Party Leader Ed Broadbent proposed that the Prime Minister advise Washington that Porter's "kind of behavior is totally unacceptable to Canada...
...Terriers later added injury to insult by crushing the Crimson 7-3 in the ECAC finals and 10-5 in the NCAA consolation match. That definitely soured the relationship...