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...front. Upon her return, a guy in front of me complained about the slow service, and she snarled right back at him. Like the rest of us, she wasn't in the mood to be reminded about awful the experience had become. You want a snack with that insult, sir? That will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flying the Cut-Rate Skies | 8/6/2008 | See Source »

...only be the fault of interference from the government. Gates, in this week's article, denies his concept is a "knock on capitalism itself." But if there is something called "creative capitalism," there must be an "uncreative capitalism," just as George W. Bush's "compassionate conservatism" is unavoidably an insult to conservatism in general...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Audacity of Bill Gates | 7/31/2008 | See Source »

...national Scrabble federation enjoys the active support of the government. But it is the palpable passion of the Senegalese for the game that surprises many foreigners. Don't tell a Senegalese host that you consider Scrabble a pastime for a relaxed evening of socializing; they will deem it an insult to the sport. Last year, Senegal's top Scrabblers were invited for an audience with President Abdoulaye Wade. "It would be hard to imagine a scene like that in Europe", Jeanneret says drily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa's Lions of the Scrabble Board | 7/22/2008 | See Source »

...sting with drinking water, rubbing it with sand, trying to suck the venom from it and - especially - urinating on it. These "therapies," doctors say, are all certain to aggravate the sting's burning sensation, and the last one ... well, it's not only useless and disgusting, it adds insult to jellyfish injury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Jellyfish Attack | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

...about 100 people, both Tibetan and Western, who had been peacefully protesting the high lama. Police felt it prudent to move in fast, with horses, and herded the smaller group into buses for their own protection. The pro-Dalai Lama crowd had also flung money at their foes, an insult indicating that they had been bought (presumably by the high lama's enemies in Beijing). Said one of the anti-Dalai Lama protesters, Kelsan Pema, who is British, has a Tibetan name and is the spokeswoman for the Western Shugden Society, "If this is what the Dalai Lama's people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Dalai Lama's Buddhist Foes | 7/18/2008 | See Source »

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