Word: odiously
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...role for government, including the protection of our freedoms of speech, religion and assembly. I am sure Parshall understands that, absent that seminal document, which is the foundation of our government, our country might have become a dictatorship - a form of government I'm certain he would find more odious than our constitutional republic seems to be to so many Libertarians. Gary Nelson, Martinsburg, Pennsylvania
...Regardless of whether one deems DADT defensible or odious, President Faust and these conscientious objectors miss the crucial point. Faust, and indeed the whole Harvard community, should be able to recognize and to honor ROTC seniors without qualifying their praise with political slogans...
...Dealing with Pyongyang is a maddening, sometimes humiliating process. Hill privately has let it be known that it drives him nuts to be portrayed as aiding and abetting such an odious crowd. But bribing Kim is the only realistic strategy. When the next U.S. Administration takes over in January, it's going to come to the same conclusion - whether the President is named McCain, Obama or Clinton...
Dealing with Kim's regime is an arduous, sometimes humiliating process. Christopher Hill privately has let it be known that it drives him nuts to be portrayed as aiding and abetting such an odious crowd. But bribing Kim is the only realistic strategy. When the next Administration takes over in January, with its own North Korea policy, it's going to come to the same conclusion, whether the President is named Obama, Clinton or McCain...
...internationalists are certainly aware of the discrepancy: In the decades following the revolution, many in the solidarity movement began to lose faith in the party's leader, President Daniel Ortega, who became embroiled in property scandals, sexual abuse allegations by his stepdaughter, and an odious power-sharing pact with erstwhile sworn enemy and arch-conservative Arnoldo Aleman. So, when Ortega managed to get reelected in 2006, even those who had originally come here to support his first government were leery of his return. And now, after a year in office, that caution has turned to criticism...