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Even those who are not Milosevic supporters resent seeing the former leader of their country, uniquely, put in the dock when so many other tyrants, from Fidel Castro to the late Franjo Tudjman of Croatia, have walked free. Vojislav Kostunica, the democratically elected President of Yugoslavia and hero of the people-power revolution that overthrew Milosevic, bitterly opposed sending him to a tribunal he regards as biased against Serbia. He called the deportation illegal and unconstitutional. It was. When the Serbian legislature, preferring that Milosevic be tried at home, declined to extradite him, the Serbian government ordered him extradited...
...restructuring also led some faculty to resent the external interference...
There are any number of reasons that TV critics resent movie critics. Owing to the prevalent and dated notion that film is still the superior and more culturally influential medium, our pals on the movie end get ample acreage and front-page positioning to review movies that fewer people will see in theaters than tune into an average episode of "Two Guys and a Girl." Meanwhile, we TV folk duke it out for space with the bridge column. A TV critic, no mater how witty, fat and proficient of thumb, will never become a syndicated celebrity. And above all, every...
...music. I’m sure that’s not a unique feeling. Oh, to be 15 again and have music mean everything and be certain about my musical opinions. To know that when Michael Stipe sang it was the expression of my inner voice, and then to resent the fact that other people knew about this private meaning, and then to resent yet other people for not knowing about REM. To be so vain I probably thought the song was about me. To have walked around with my discman, wearing the fact that I was listening...
This kind of defensiveness was not uncommon on my tour. Many Southerners rightly resent the caricature of Southerners as tobacco-chewing bigots. That kind of guy still lives and breathes, but he's got plenty of cousins up North, which is arguably no less racist than the South. In today's South, defenders of the Lost Cause are likely to be educated, professional and mainstream. Like Faggert...