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...about why I stayed so long, and why I finally decided to leave. Even as I realized that I was miserable during those first four weeks, even as I walked to work crying one day, even as friends from the U.S. came to visit and confirmed how rude Anke was to me, I never thought of moving. Three words in particular kept coming into my thoughts: “Stick it out, stick it out.” Even if I hated it, I reasoned, I would get through...
...force, come to disrupt a local way of life. The resentment is particularly strong in the mountain communities close to generations-old marijuana and opium fields. Here soldiers are insultingly branded "guachos," a slang term once used to describe Indians who served as messengers. "The soldiers are abusive and rude," complains Dolores Gamboa, 42, in the ramshackle mountain village of Santiago de los Caballeros. "But most of all they are dangerous." She proudly shows off a bush of opium poppies in her garden, which she says she planted for decorative purposes...
Such pushback may have been an act of chivalry in the face of talk-radio furies and bloggers attacking, as one commenter did, "the bitter, anti-American, ungrateful, rude, crude, ghetto, angry Michelle Obama." But it also may signal that as attention turns to the general campaign, Michelle could be a liability as well as an asset. Her speeches can sound stark and stern compared with her husband's roof raisers. He's all about the promise; she's more about the problem. It's not just that she says times are hard and "we're not where we need...
...demanding "better nutrition and better food, and so demand is high, and that causes the price to go up" was neither particularly mangled nor, at first flush, offensive. In the days since, though, India's most nationalistic politicians, newspapers and television pundits have expressed outrage, calling Bush's comment rude and insensitive because it suggests Indians are to blame for recent global food price increases and implies they should eat less. "U.S. Eats 5 Times More than India Per Capita" blared a headline in the Times of India above a typical story outlining the massive disparities between the amount...
...available for reference and preference. Hollywood has already given us the real thing—slightly predictable, but not dully inevitable—so for Sony Pictures to assume that we won’t notice the difference between an original romantic comedy and a formulaic one is simply rude. My suggestion: If you want to know what this movie is about, watch the trailer. But please, save your money and your time, because this movie is “made” of nothing. —Reviewer Jessica O. Matthews can be reached at jmatthew@fas.harvard.edu...