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...areas not regarding race, we accept this fact without question. As a general rule, the standards for appropriate self-criticism are different from those for acceptable criticism of others. I may think that my mother is cruel, controlling, and manipulative??I might even say as much—but if you diss my family, it is still offensive. As John Lennon once quipped, “I can knock The Beatles, but don’t let Mick Jagger knock them...

Author: By Daniel E. Herz-roiphe | Title: Colorful Language | 5/2/2007 | See Source »

...such a link. The president can amass troops around Iraq’s borders while assuring the public he is a patient man and hasn’t made up his mind. Iraq’s offers to readmit weapons inspectors can be dismissed as “manipulative?? while U.S. attempts to avoid the renewal of inspections are reported as “diplomacy...

Author: By Matthew R. Skomarovsky, | Title: Casualties of War | 9/26/2002 | See Source »

Where an individual farmer cannot sell his small crop to Nestle or Starbucks, a middleman can collect enough coffee to sell. Many of these coyotes, however, are manipulative??acting simultaneously as loan sharks for the small coffee growing families in a manner reminiscent of sharecroppers in antebellum America...

Author: By Judd B. Kessler, | Title: Coyote Free Coffee | 4/5/2002 | See Source »

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