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...Qataris are thrilled with Hamad. Some resent his efforts to stop doling out free college education, housing, foreign holidays and high-paying jobs that require no work. "In the past we spent too much on luxury and life-style," Hamad says. "We have to change our mentality." When one of his sons took unauthorized leave from his army post, he was dismissed on the spot. "Modernization is not just roads and television, but a way of thinking," says Mohammed Musfir, editor of Rayah, Doha's daily newspaper...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "I represent a lot of working people of all races...who resent the government's being viewed as the giver of free entitlements...
...favor of a capital-gains tax cut--ran afoul of her party's liberals last year when she and Fields were locked in a bitter gubernatorial primary. Fields backers say it was racially insensitive of her to run ads saying she was more electable than Fields, and they resent her refusal, after she lost, to endorse him. But the state's leading black officials now back Landrieu, who hopes their supporters will...
...about homosexuality and gay rights. One group was pushing for an elementary school curriculum to "form and defend gay/straight alliances in public schools." Another spent $1.5 million to encourage others to come out of the closet. Such plans bristle Americans who agree that all disease should be combated, yet resent being vilified for their moral objections to homosexuality itself...
...resent the claim repeated by Trudeau that every person of a certain age used drugs, especially marijuana. Perhaps I was isolated in special places, but I did not use drugs and know very few people who did. I accept Trudeau's confession as his own but consider it the height of arrogance that he feels the need to apologize for an entire generation when he really knows no reality other than his own. ROLFE HUNT Bainbridge, Georgia...