Word: insulters
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...sharpest insult came from an Easterner, Maine Coach Shawn Walsh. After Minnesota beat the Black Bears in the semifinals, Walsh proclaimed the Gophers the "team of the 80s." He lauded Minnesota's combination of "ability and class...
...posing for Vanity Fair, with red buttons over his nipples and 16 satin bows on his pigtails? Such antics have charmed the powerful French fashion press. "Le mignon petit noir Americain," enthused one Paris newspaper -- although in America being called a cute little black would seem more like an insult...
...fair to belittle homeownership by labelling it greed? After all, most existing homeowners in Cambridge do not sell their homes primarily to make money. They sell when they have to, for personal reasons, like moving to a new job. There is no reason to insult tenants who may buy under Proposition 1 by suggesting they will behave any differently from other homeowners. All should be treated equally...
...days later, one of Khomeini's colleagues, President Ali Khamenei, declares that the death sentence might be rescinded if only Rushdie would repent. Rushdie duly issues a formal apology, saying he meant no insult to true believers. Will Khomeini forgive him? Will the death sentence be lifted...
...Ayatullah last week, saying of the death edict, "The long black arrow has been slung and is now traveling toward its target. There is nothing more that can be done." Western governments, he added, had made the mistake of confusing "freedom of expression with the freedom to insult 1 billion Muslims...