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...Meanwhile, she is a determined missionary as she rattles on about getting in touch with "the essential self." Confronted with one of his respectable female friends, she asks, "Have you considered Colour Counselling?" When George makes an ironic reference to "the child inside you," Katy corrects him with the scorn of a strict catechist: "Within...
...openly denounced the Kremlin's orders and local commanders who ignored them. Should the outside world be less worried about Russia's military prowess because the army seemed for the moment incapable of acting as an instrument of aggression? Or more worried that generals who still control nuclear weaponry scorn the commands of their civilian superiors...
Despite the Republican rout last month and the unusual scorn he elicits from some people, Bill Clinton is the most admired man in the U.S., according to a new poll. And First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton tied with Mother Teresa as the woman most admired by Americans, a CNN/USA Today poll of 1,016 American finds. The second most admired man is another controversial Democrat and lately a successful international peace maker: former President Jimmy Carter. Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, former first lady Barbara Bush and talk show host Oprah Winfrey occupy third, fourth, and fifth place...
...problem is often particularly acute for Southerners, who say their accents often draw scorn from fellow students...
...very smart," Gingrich told Dateline NBC. "I probably need to be 30 percent less pugnacious and 50 less negative." Meanwhile, the first comment's indirect target, former Senator and Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern, responded in a column in The St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "I fully welcome the scorn of Gingrich. I have nothing but disdain toward this unscrupulous demagogue . . . In any event, the 'McGoverniks' whom Gingrich fears did not get to the White House in 1972."Post your opinion on theWashingtonbulletin board...