Word: prided
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...Hometown Pride Your special report on Hong Kong dwelled on expatriates and returnees, perpetuating the misconception that the city's indigenous majority has no value to the city's development other than as its money-driven labor [June 18]. A city can never be great if the majority of its population is taught that everything good is foreign. The cosmopolitan city glamorized in your report is a city of cultural orphans brainwashed into becoming submissive to myriad foreign cultures that have been filtered through a colonial sieve. Pierce Lam, Hong Kong Gates...
...Hometown Pride Your special report on Hong Kong dwelled on expatriates and returnees, perpetuating the misconception that the city's indigenous majority has no value to the city's development other than its money-driven labor [June 18]. A city can never be great if the majority of its population is taught that everything good is foreign. The cosmopolitan city glamorized in your report is a city of cultural orphans brainwashed into becoming submissive to myriad foreign cultures that have been filtered through a colonial sieve. Pierce Lam, HONG KONG
...Apple's trademark fine manufacturing tolerances are evident even in the box, which resists opening with a satisfying pneumatic counter-suck - the cover is so precisely made it's reluctant to let air flow in around it. I hooked the iPhone up to my iBook with a feeling of pride roughly comparable to that of someone setting up an old friend with a really hot blind date. iTunes needed to download a chunk of code before it would talk to the iPhone (as if it wanted to change before it met that really hot blind date). After a brisk...
Neither rain nor a light drizzle of updates from Scotland Yard on police efforts to prevent further terrorist attacks in London have deterred revellers from taking part in today's gay pride march or chased the capital's summer visitors indoors, and tomorrow's tribute concert for Princess Diana is set to proceed as planned. Only the tennis tournament at Wimbledon has been interrupted - but by the bad weather and not alarm over safety (though a still mysterious incident late Saturday afternoon in Glasgow, Scotland, where a car crashed into an airport terminal and apparently exploded into flames, has heightened...
...know why someone else's marriage has anything to do with me. I'm completely comfortable with gay marriage.' ELIZABETH EDWARDS, wife of former Senator John Edwards, at a news conference before San Francisco's annual Gay Pride Parade, putting her at odds with her husband's official stance...