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...netizens to expressing frustration with the level of censorship they suffer. That subversive tactic, which had been quietly tolerated in the past, was recently cracked down on when a pun went viral that involved a mythical animal called a "grass mud horse" - a thinly masked homonym for a very rude Chinese phrase involving sex acts and a close relative. By the time one enterprising netizen had concocted a video clip purporting to show grass mud horses cavorting in an equally mythical (and equally rudely named) desert, China's net nanny swung into action and attempted to erase all trace...
...didn't like him at all. He was very rude," says Michael Verdi, 59, who, with his late wife Eva Menen, went to Kamrava in the early 1990s for infertility treatment. (Menen died of an unrelated illness in 1998.) "When the treatment started, I was asking him questions and I wouldn't get proper answers. I would get psychiatric answers, clinical answers." After three months without success, the couple stopped treatment. "Eva was getting emotionally upset because nothing was happening and he wasn't explaining things," says Verdi. "We did research and figured out he was doing...
...rude, confrontational, and threatening to one of my fellow Quincy residents, and it was completely out of line,” Bailey said in the e-mail. “My behavior was totally incompatible with being a positive member of the Quincy community, which is something that has been important to me this year...
...riled rank-and-file officers in Seattle as well. After he publicly punished a Seattle cop who was rude to a group of jaywalkers in 2002, prompting a vote of no confidence from the police union. The year before, the chief earned the union's ire for releasing the names of officers who faced disciplinary action...
...found a very civil, self-policed line of 60 or so friendly people bundled in coats and sleeping bags. By 4:30 a.m; the situation had devolved into mayhem. A few impromptu community organizers and I attempted to maintain our nice single-file line, but the surprisingly rude police officers refused to help. Thousands of people arrived from public transportation and crowded into a mass of hopeful yet frustrated pilgrims, interspersed with officers yelling conflicting information about which section of the crowd would be admitted first. After lurching forward in the shoulder-to-shoulder crowd, my friends and I took...