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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...east and west. But insurgents had watched the troops as they scouted locations, and a sick comedy of explosions unfolded. Soldiers would eye a building and develop plans to occupy it, only to see it bombed shortly after they had visited it. At some point, someone graffitied a misspelled insult in English to the U.S. President on one of the bullet-pocked walls of the intersection, writing boosh dog in tall black letters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mission Unfinished | 2/29/2008 | See Source »

...Lynch, Tallahassee, FloridaShe was definitely someone I admired growing up-I watched her movies over and over. I was also incredibly influenced by the kind of work she did outside of her acting career. It's a compliment, but I think saying that anyone is like her is an insult...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Natalie Portman | 2/29/2008 | See Source »

...took place Saturday at France's annual farmers' congress, where the president was rebuffed during a round of glad-handing by an older man, who said, "Don't touch me, you make me dirty." Visibly piqued, Sarkozy twice ordered the man to "bugger off," the second time adding the insult usually reserved for locker rooms and school yards. Though the incident took only seconds, the exchange was immortalized on camera and uploaded to the web site of French daily Le Parisien, where it had been viewed nearly a million times by Monday morning. Against a background of sliding poll numbers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beware of Riling France's President | 2/25/2008 | See Source »

...last minute,” Richards says. “Unfortunately, they never got back to us. We had to replace him with someone who was not of color, who was white.”For the presidents of BlackCAST, Johnson and Richards’ request was an insult. “Don’t you dare say to me, ‘You guys need to be more actively involved in coming out to our shows and all of this stuff when you only seek us out when you need a black character. It’s nonsensical...

Author: By Jillian J. Goodman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Staging the Race Debate | 2/22/2008 | See Source »

...resolve their marital sex problems. But she refuses to deal with cases where a husband abuses his wife but expects her to respond to his sexual whims by claiming that Islam requires her obedience. "I ask patients like that to leave and never come back, because they are an insult to Islam and the Prophet," she says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Islamic Answer to Dr. Ruth | 2/22/2008 | See Source »

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