Word: spoiledness
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To listen to young Jabar and Hussein, privates in the Iraqi army, was to know the story of their country last week. A bag of spoiled dates -- "food for cattle," Hussein called it -- was their only sustenance as they plodded down a rain-sodden highway littered with ravaged tanks in...
Nothing to do! Their country has been snatched by a thief; Americans, Egyptians, Britons and Saudis, among others, are braving the gulf deserts and Saddam's rockets to win it back for them, and these two able-bodied young men say there is nothing to do. For those who do...
If America is at war, why are Americans still acting like a bunch of spoiled brats?
Unless you count Walter F. Mondale's "I will raise your taxes" speech at the 1984 Democratic convention, that was the last genuine attempt to impose discipline on a nation of spoiled brats. Absent a major war, there seemed no way to get people to see past their narrow self...
In All His Glory: The Life of William S. Paley by Sally Bedell Smith. Paley, the founder of CBS and a Manhattan socialite, died not a moment too soon to avoid seeing himself debunked in this best-selling biography. "Paley," says the author, "was as spoiled as a man could...