Word: vilely
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...appearance of a lone woman triggered an irresistible urge to make unwanted advances (or, in the case of the old women, to poke and prod).One incident went beyond irritating. In my brief overnight stay in the tiny mountain town of Tam Duong, I was harassed by two rather vile specimens. One drunkenly clutched at my hand before handing out his business card (lucky me), and then attempted to charge into my hotel room after me. Fortunately, I snappily closed the door. Another, after failing to gain entrance by continually knocking on the door, settled down to wait outside. Neither...
...victim of rape or attempted rape, according to the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network). The town-gown relations between Duke and Durham have been historically uneasy. And one would expect better from students at one of the country's top-ranked universities. We definitely expect better than the vile e-mail written by one of the players, Ryan McFayden, in which he invited his friends to watch him kill more strippers and "cut their skin...
...have been an impassioned and chilling event, which escaped the trivialization it has encountered in years past.Outside the Science Center last week, amidst the Clothesline Project, a collection of t-shirts with jostling messages from rape victims written on them, one could still find the tangential leftover. The most vile read: “‘Your mother gave you up for adoption because she wanted you to have a better life’ means ‘she couldn’t afford an abortion.’”Although Harvard’s TBTN...
...would seem an absurd and intolerable innuendo to suggest on these grounds that any gift made by any American in support of scholarship is tied to torture.Of course, it would be highly objectionable if someone giving money to Harvard were a known supporter of terrorism or anything so vile. Perhaps we should look more carefully at gifts that have been made to Harvard over the years from people who could also have supported dictatorial regimes like those in the Middle East or Latin America, or insurgent causes like Northern Irish Republicanism. In the case of Islamic studies, however, it seems...
...does make a powerful point when you contrast these cartoons with even more vile cartoons from Middle Eastern publications,” he said, referencing a cartoon from the Egyptian paper al-Ahram depicting Jews killing children and drinking their blood, which the Salient published next to the cartoons of Muhammad. “I hate to say it, but provocative content can have meaning...