Word: insulted
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...said last week at the U.N. "It still smells of sulfur today." The one who allegedly left the satanic traces was George W. Bush, who addressed the General Assembly the day before. But in painting the Prez as the devil, Chávez put him in good company. The insult isn't new--Satan has apparently possessed people on both sides of the political aisle, in books, on TV and all over...
...political fallout has been bad for the president and especially another spokesman Gholam Hossein Elham, who had proposed before the furor that those who insult the government be "dealt with" legally. At his last press conference, reporters grilled Elham on the freedom of speech, and whether the government only reserved the right for its supporters. But the scandal has been titillating for thousands of Iranian women, myself included, who want to know more about the women behind the men running the country. Politicians shouldn't be judged by their personal lives, but if the president or his closest advisors were...
...Although Bosnian politicians have so far refrained from calling up voters in their constituencies to reach for the guns, they have done just about everything else to provoke and insult the opposing ethnic groups. Last Sunday Borislav Paravac, the Serbian member of Bosnia's collective Presidency, stated that the behavior of his Muslim colleague Sulejman Tihic was "idiotic." Tihic had previously said that those Serbs who do not accept his vision of Bosnia as a centralized state should pack up and move out of the country...
...merely "ordinary." Does it matter? Would the crime be somehow more understandable if the victim had been pretty? The reason the soldier selected her is unknown. Time's decision to evaluate Abeer's physical attractiveness and speculate on what made her "tantalizing" was both poor journalism and an insult to the young girl who died a violent and tragic death. Margaret Emery Washington...
...that. He's seemed almost militantly indifferent to the disaster Iraq has become. And his passion about the war seemed reserved exclusively for those who questioned it rather than those who had so clearly botched the enterprise. His continual embrace of President Bush - both literal and figurative - was an insult to Democrats, the great majority of whom believe Bush has governed as one of the most destructive Presidents in modern American history. It's almost as though Lieberman has gone out of his way to provoke and offend Democrats on every point possible, often, seemingly, purely for the reason...