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First, Krugman belittles concerns about America's huge and growing merchandise trade deficits with China because the U.S. government figures I cited have kept Hong Kong and the People's Republic of China separate.
He belittles her in public and is quite a cheapskate.
A piece belittles Nobel Prize winner Stanley Prusiner's prion theory, calling it "pathological science" that is contrary to evidence and experience.
As her unauthorized biography, Just Desserts , contends, Martha is an icy, horrible person who abused her (now ex-) husband, ignores her daughter, belittles her mother, sues her gardener for pennies, plagiarizes recipes from better cooks, and humiliates her staff.