Word: snubbing
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...would have thought that Oprah, of all people, would understand that the same rules apply to her as to the average person. Isn't compassion what she's famous for? Surely she could have had someone find out the Herm?s store's closing times and avoided this snub? Perhaps Tom Cruise's new penchant for strange behavior has rubbed off on her. On the other hand, with so few people able to afford an Herm?s bag, I can't understand why the store would turn away a customer. Internet shopping might be the way to go. Faye Gordon London...
...should be done by someone "independent of the NRC and the nuclear industry." That's a frightening postscript. Since 9/11, virtually everything having to do with nuclear-plant security has been in the hands of the NRC and the nuclear industry. Diaz takes offense at the N.A.S.'s pointed snub of his agency's expertise. "The recommendation was not well justified," he says. "I don't believe we need anybody to come in and do it, because nobody can do it better than we can." --With reporting by Bruce Crumley/Paris
...Page and bassist?keyboardist John Paul Jones - turned up crisply suited at the awards ceremony in Los Angeles. But former frontman Plant didn't show; he was 9,000 km away, getting ready for a tsunami benefit gig in Bristol, England. He sent along a video greeting instead. His snub clearly hurt Page, who said: "It wouldn't have taken much just to pop over here and meet everybody, would it, really?" Two months later, Plant is still unapologetic. "It made more sense to join hands with proactive people than to go along...
Though this snub has not sent crashing shockwaves across the Atlantic and into Boston Harbor, this seemingly archaic expression of parental approval of marriage, or matchmaking in the absence of parents, is not limited only to Balmoral. There are similar marital confusions and difficulties present in the United States...
...plans not to attend his April 8 wedding to his longtime paramour, Camilla Parker Bowles. Never failing to serve scandals on a silver platter, the Queen’s ambiguous reasons for not attending her son’s wedding appear to amount to nothing less than a royal snub...