Word: insults
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...resolution forbidding the North's ballistic missile program. Then, in a life-imitates-art moment, the U.N. Security Council issued what amounted to a strongly worded letter straight out of Team America: World Police condemning the missile test. The North, in response, called this "an unbearable insult," and said it would again fire up its reactor at Yongbyon, the source of fissile material for the North's suspected small arsenal of nuclear weapons...
...Dieudonné has made insult and denunciation of "Zionists" a recurring part of his politicized repertoire - one most observers view as scarcely veiled anti-Semitism. In 2003, he appeared on national TV dressed as an Orthodox Israeli settler and giving the Nazi arm salute while shouting "Heil Israel!" Since then, the comic, the son of a Breton mother and Cameroonian father, has been convicted for, among other things, calling Jews "black slave traders"; for claiming that Jews exploit the Holocaust to avoid political criticism in what he called "memorial pornography"; and for slandering a popular French Jewish entertainer with allegations...
...Blessed by an abundance of Douglas fir and hemlock, the town once hummed with pulp plants, stud mills and palletmakers. A few decades ago, though, the mighty Columbia began delivering logs from Canada, then ready-made office paper from Asia. The financial swoon of 2008 was just a final insult to what remained of the town's manufacturing base. Most of the major employers have closed in the past six months or drastically cut hours and staff. The town, whose motto in the good times was "The Payroll City," is on the brink of economic ruin or, perhaps worse...
...France an increasingly authoritarian society whose police forces are protected from frequent charges of abuse - ranging from racial insult to homicide? That's what Amnesty International maintains in a new report issued Thursday. According to the report, abuse complaints against French police are routinely dismissed, and a tacit immunity allows accused officers to counter-attack the minorities, immigrants, and economically disadvantaged people who constitute the majority of plaintiffs...
...have any of the Negroes talking.” My father would kill me. (Thou shalt not kill?)Ezekiel’s eyes tapered. “It ain’t my friends that’d be upset.”I rushed past the insult. “I think anyone would be upset if they knew you were out here, missing the service. You might not be real comfy in our pew. But only ’cause it’d be full. And that’s never hurt anyone. Right...