Word: insulting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...University only gave us a meeting with [Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III], which is really a blatant insult because he is the dean of students and this is an issue that goes beyond students," said Justin B. Wood '98-'99. "Our demand is to meet with people in the University who canimplement a University-wide policy...
...movie, director/producer/co-writer Hugh Wilson (First Wives Club) decides to simplify everything. According to Blast, 1962 is no match for 1997's fast lane. The vast differences are represented by Brendan Fraser's wide-eyed Adam and Alicia Silverstone's street-wise Eve, the names being yet another insult to our intelligence...
...deserve ever to return to Harvard, and though they probably will not be allowed to, they should be expelled. (Expulsion is absolute; after a Harvard student is expelled, his or her Harvard career is over.) The fact that they have not yet been either dismissed or expelled is an insult most of all to the two women whom they raped, but also to everyone else here...
...Ritter feels that he was first drawn into U.S. covert intelligence-gathering and then later frozen out," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. Among the reasons allegedly cited were his marriage to a Russian woman. "That's an insult to his pride as an intelligence professional," says Dowell, "and he's hitting back by accusing the CIA operatives dealing with Iraq of being more concerned with advancing their careers than with the real danger posed by Iraq's weapons." That'll teach those cloak-and-dagger boys to mess with a Marine...
Really, really, I recommend that you read Mr. Zbigniew Herbert. He is a serious poet, full of beauty that does not insult our modern post-atrocity sensibilities. A Polish poet born in 1950 who was active in his country's anti-Communist movement, Herbert died in 1998, leaving behind an oeuvre that begins with spare poems about creation, antiquity and art. He then continues those themes through increasingly pointed and readable poetry while also developing a strong form of the prose poem that mixes fairy tales, images from everyday life and an aphoristic style. The recently published posthumous collection Elegy...