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...opportunity," the President gravely told Arafat during a call last week, "you will have no mention in history and coming generations of Palestinians will curse you." Arafat hung up the receiver and turned to an aide. "He's threatening me," the Palestinian leader said, twisting his lip with dismissive scorn. Other Arab leaders Clinton phoned voiced support for his proposal. But senior Arafat advisers tell TIME that many of these same leaders have been privately urging Arafat not to negotiate with Barak on the U.S. peace plan, fearing street protests in their countries...
Flood lost his case, but baseball saw the handwriting on the wall and modified its reserve clause to allow for free agency. With players permitted to shop themselves to any bidder after a few years of service, the floodgates opened to larger amounts of money and scorn. There was alarm when Reggie Jackson was given $2.9 million a year in 1976; shock when one-dimensional Jose Canseco became the game's salary king at $4.7 million in 1990; disbelief when pitcher Kevin Brown signed a seven-year, $105 million deal in '98. Observers from Bob Costas to Joe Blow said...
...those who did come out expressed scorn toward homebodies choosing to enjoy a dry evening at home in front of the fireplace...
...body experience, an exuberant jailbreak of the self: a detonation. In that, laughter resembles sex. Or do I mean sneezing? Anyway, there's an outburst, a blast of something that aspires to ecstasy. But unlike sex, laughter (unless it is bitter, derisive laughter, the weapon of scorn) has a gregarious quality: shared, social. Why not? Comedy originated with phallic pageants in ancient Greece, in which men would caper around wearing immense penises. Lots of laughs...
With language filled with expletives, she described the utter scorn she said she though these definitions deserve...