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Statements by two military physicians that Miroslav Medvid's defection [NATION, Nov. 18] was motivated by "glitter and gusto" and that he was "immature" prove only that the doctors have been watching too many beer commercials. Their comments are an insult to all victims of Bolshevism. I suggest they administer a psychiatric examination to the officials involved in this tragedy. Peter Lepka Freeport...
...when the replacement arrived, his “friend” Brian Wan ’05-’08 offered to retrieve and set up the computer for him. But the computer Wan set up turned out to be the one that had been stolen. Adding insult to injury, Wan informed his proctor that Murstein had faked the whole theft just to collect the insurance money for what Wan claimed was Murstein’s drug habit. Wan confessed to making up the whole story. Murstein collected his second stolen computer from Wan’s partner...
...regime and encourage [Sunni] students to sing songs about Saddam," says Haider, a Shi'ite pharmacy student at the University of Baghdad. "Such people should be driven out of the universities." Attitudes like that don't make for happy classrooms. "Students openly disrespect some professors, shout at them and insult them," says University of Baghdad President Mosa Aziz al-Mosawe. "Many of my professors tell me their students are getting out of control...
...power promising to resume them?which he has done, visiting the shrine each year since 2001. China, along with other Asian countries invaded during World War II, insists that for Japan's leader to visit a shrine where the war's masterminds are worshipped as gods is a grave insult and proves Japan isn't really sorry for its actions...
...some women who choose to change their names, the fight may have gone too far. "It was drummed into me [at college] that marriage was an inherently oppressive institution and that child rearing was an insult to my talents," says Carol Holyoke, 39, who shocked her feminist friends when she took her new husband's name four years ago. "So perhaps I feel a touch of rebelliousness in shirking a doctrine that ultimately seemed oppressive to me because it was slathered on so thick." The decision to become a Holyoke, she says, was empowering. "I was adopted at 18 months...