Word: scum
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...class. France, a nation that prides itself on its respect for human rights, should embrace the ideals of Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité and give up sermonizing. Didier Braun Antony, France Can you imagine any Canadian cabinet minister going to a riot-torn area and calling the residents "scum," as France's Interior Minister Nicholas Sarkozy did? That should be political suicide, but Sarkozy got away with it. As a French citizen of South Asian origin, I would say that callousness represents the state of affairs in mainstream French society. Unlike the Anglo-Saxons, who have a penchant...
...saying that at 5 p.m. on November 21, he contacted his immediate boss, the province's Communist Party Secretary, Song Fatang. From 11:30 p.m. to 2 a.m., both men again reported to the State Council in Beijing. They requested that an upstream reservoir be opened to dilute the scum floating down the river, asked that a group of water-safety experts be dispatched, and informed Beijing that they would turn off the water the next...
...class. France, a nation that prides itself on its respect for human rights, should embrace the ideals of Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité and give up sermonizing. Didier Braun Antony, France Can you imagine any Canadian cabinet minister going to a riot-torn area and calling the residents "scum," as France's Interior Minister Nicholas Sarkozy did? That should be political suicide, but Sarkozy got away with it. As a French citizen of South Asian origin, I would say that callousness represents the state of affairs in mainstream French society. Unlike the Anglo-Saxons, who have a penchant...
...occasionally asking them to pay to live there.But what makes “Rent” politically troubling isn’t the notion that artists should be able to live for free in the heart of Manhattan—or that anybody who thinks otherwise is yuppie scum. The trouble with “Rent” is the face it puts on poverty. Poverty is a serious problem, not a lifestyle choice. But “Rent”’s main characters accept poverty as both a necessary byproduct of refusing to sell...
...televised town-hall meeting, Sarkozy took umbrage at what he deemed the insolent tone of a teenager in a hooded sweatshirt and shaved head--"We are not in the street here," Sarkozy said--but refused to apologize for his own use of the derogatory term racaille, or scum, to describe the delinquents of France's blighted suburbs. In fact, he used it again. "Thugs and scum," he said, when asked who was behind the violence. "I stand by it, and I underline...