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...book about the death of Princess Diana is an insult to the French medical team that fought in vain to save her life last August [BOOK EXCERPT, Feb. 16]. Everyone knows the situation was hopeless. It is tasteless for a couple of American journalists to criticize the heroic efforts of the French doctors and the British intelligence team that have had to pick up the pieces and deal with the aftermath of the accident. The authors can wheel out as many American experts as they like, expound on as many theories as they like of how American procedures could have...
Neither I nor any other veteran of the First World War can quarrel honorably with the Colonel's sincere pacifism. But his choice of a simile, "We must be as impersonal as a surgeon with his knife," seems to me singularly unhappy. It is an insult to the medical profession...
...when two teams collaborated in the season's final game to let hobbled University of Connecticut star Nykesha Sales break the No. 2-ranked school's scoring record, columnists and talk-show callers went nuts. They railed that it was an insult to the integrity of sports--as bad, some argued, as point shaving. But this sort of assist to a deserving player is not unprecedented: Mickey Mantle was served a big fat pitch to pass Jimmie Foxx's career home-run mark. And why are all these people suddenly taking such an interest in a women's college scoring...
...anti-American, I thank you for your rotten article devoted to my person. Your insult to a head of state and your odious lies dishonor not only your magazine but also your nation...
...insult to injury, the Dartmouth players celebrated their Ivy title by cutting down the Lavietes Pavilion nets...