Word: slight
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...administration do to violate this royal character of Thai democracy? SONTHI: It is a very sensitive question. There are many cases in which the previous government was impolite to the royal family and to the King himself. The Thai people cannot and will not tolerate anybody who shows even slight disrespect to the King or his family...
...came to Harvard, he says, nothing had been ink-worthy. But some Harvardians shy away from marking themselves with the H-bomb, even if they don’t mind tattoos in general. Tess M. Ponce ’07 has three tattoos, but she sees Harvard tatts as slight overkill. “Isn’t the fucking degree enough?” she said, upon hearing that some students went for crimson ink. Hey, it beats having your estranged mother’s name on your...
...really mad when George Bush went and told 60 Minutes that he was reading this book about Algiers, which he said [slight drop into Bush mimicking voice] "has a lot of parallels to the Iraq war." Well, really great to be reading that book three years into the war. Maybe it would have been good to be reading that before we got into this. Why don't you try reading about a country we're about to invade instead of praying about...
...first scenes also give the story a very human tension, making subtle (and not-so-subtle) comparisons, through Deng’s eyes, of Africa and America. Deng confides that since coming to the States, he’s had a habit of telling silent stories to people who slight him—people whom he thinks would act differently if they knew the story of his suffering. Slowly but surely, Deng’s story unfolds through narratives he intends for various people who disappoint him in America. Everything from the happy, simpler days of Deng?...
...Lieberman says leaving the Democratic Party is a "very remote possibility." But even that slight ambiguity - and all his cross-aisle flirtation - has proved more than enough to position Lieberman as the Senate's one-man tipping point. If he were to jump ship, the ensuing shift of power to Republicans would scramble the politics of the war in Iraq, undercut the Democrats' national agenda and potentially weaken their hopes for the White House in 2008. Those stakes are high enough to give Lieberman leverage with both parties no matter how slim the chance of his crossing the aisle. Which...