Word: slurs
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...sock you in the god-damn face, and you will stay plastered.” Quaint postwar vernacular aside, the moment, somehow benign on the page, seems pretty ugly on video, in the light of day. From understandable rancor and an articulate tongue springs this petulant slur; Buckley seems at once less like a cultured commentator, and more like a prep-school prat, bullying...
...decisions, are even more livid that one of their players has been banned for three games on charges of racism. The Australians accuse Indian bowler Harbhajan Singh of calling Andrew Symonds, the only non-white Australian player, a "monkey." Though the two on-field umpires did not hear the slur and though Singh vociferously denies he used the word, the match referee (who adjudicates in such disputes) said that he was "satisfied beyond a reasonable doubt that Harbhajan Singh directed that word at Andrew Symonds and also that he meant it to offend on the basis of Symonds' race...
...suspend its operation till the appeal is disposed of ... The Indian board realizes the game of cricket is paramount but so, too, is the honor of the Indian team and for that matter every Indian. To vindicate its position the Board will fight the blatantly false and unfair slur on an Indian player." In India, protestors burned the umpires and the Australian captain Ricky Ponting in effigy and newspapers called for the team to come home early, describing the Australians as shameful and cheats. "It's not cricket, it's India versus a conspiracy," says Pankaj Kehra, 39, a manager...
...Mary, Nutbush City Limits and I Want to Take You Higher. After Tina left in 1976, Ike fumbled, but last year he found new fans with his Grammy-winning album Risin' with the Blues. He was 76. He held one of the most�prestigious posts in academia before a slur, uttered while he was ill, ended his career. In 1990, as editor in chief of the project to translate the Dead Sea Scrolls, esteemed biblical scholar John Strugnell was under pressure to speed up the Scrolls' publication. In an interview, Strugnell, who had started studying the Scrolls four decades earlier...
...More recently, a former HIS member wearing a headscarf was the victim of a verbal assault when a group of women allegedly screamed a cultural slur at her in 2005. While the Harvard Foundation, which promotes cultural pluralism on campus, met with the student, several HIS affiliates said they were not satisfied with the response...