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This kind of defensiveness was not uncommon on my tour. Many Southerners rightly resent the caricature of Southerners as tobacco-chewing bigots. That kind of guy still lives and breathes, but he's got plenty of cousins up North, which is arguably no less racist than the South. In today's South, defenders of the Lost Cause are likely to be educated, professional and mainstream. Like Faggert...
...Even more troubling, "Mein Kampf" and the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" remain as bestsellers, and denial of the holocaust continues in materials distributed by the Palestinian Authority. Blatant incitement of the population is not uncommon. For instance, Ahmad Abu Halabiya, a member of the Palestinian Authority's appointed Fatwa Council, proclaimed live on Palestinian TV, "Have no mercy on the Jews, no matter where they are, in any country. Fight them, wherever you are. Wherever you meet them, kill them." Had an Israeli official uttered such an outrageous provocation against Arabs, the uproar by the U.N. and world...
That's the prevailing philosophy, and the vast majority of Decima's clients are powerful men wanting to be manhandled by women. Psychiatry professor Ng Men-lun of the University of Hong Kong says that the desire to be submissive is not uncommon among bigwigs. "Sometimes a person has this need," he explains, "because he has dominated other people so much, he or she is bored and wants to be dominated." Remorse can be a factor too. "There may be a lot of things someone has done in a position of power that he or she feels guilty about...
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...House with him, though Museveni was already married. The following year, however, Museveni decided he wanted to accommodate their relationship by keeping Winnie as wife No. 2, leaving the No. 1--and the legal--spot for Janet, the First Lady recognized by his Protestant congregation. It is not an uncommon solution to libidinal dilemmas in many parts of the world. But Winnie was implacable and left...