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...remain unchanged, the methods of rebellion are now far more dangerous. Today's miscreants know that a pistol says much more than long hair or a pierced nose ever could. Not just louder, but forever. With a $25 investment, all the teasing from classmates stops cold. Suddenly, the shortest, ugliest and weakest kid becomes a player...
...know how to find her. Ever since the youth minister of Corvallis' First Congregational Church came out as a lesbian and an advocate for homosexual rights, she has regularly received death threats. "We're very visible, and the police chief said these death threats were some of the ugliest things she's ever heard in her life. When people talk about coming after you with baseball bats and putting you in your grave, it's very frightening." Neighbors have also spread rumors that she and her partner are witches. A Fundamentalist Christian living nearby has accused the couple of performing...
This ideological and cultural blending strikes some observers as too much of a good thing. Writing in the Atlantic, Rutgers political scientist Benjamin Barber laments what he calls "McWorld." He also identifies the countertrend, the re-emergence of nationalism in its ugliest, most divisive and violent form...
...wave of late twentieth century construction, Harvard's commissioned architects, some of them world famous, decided to abandon red brick and take a few risks. Many students consider the results to be some of the ugliest buildings ever constructed...
...miseries of families, that, for example, Eastern prep schools are filled with children packed off to get them away from divorce, incest, alcoholism, child abuse, wife battering and other horrors at home. The willingness to let the racist implication stand unchallenged, unexamined, loitering on the threshold, is the ugliest aspect of all this...