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A l-Khaleej , a daily from the United Arab Emirates, said in an editorial Tuesday that the attacks demonstrated "the contempt in which Washington holds its Arab allies, even when they do its political bidding.
The contempt measure is expected to pass but, appropriately for this theatrical day, it is a theatrical gesture: The full House is highly unlikely to approve such an inflammatory action.
Malamud was born in Brooklyn in 1914 (and died in 1986), and he grew up in the kind of immigrant environment in which little children, because they are the native-born half of a foreign-born neighborhood, are obliged to shield their vulnerable elders from the contempt of the outside world.
Dan Burton says that his investigating committee may have to cite Janet Reno for contempt if she doesn't turn over a memo written to her by FBI director Louis Freeh.
There's a protest everywhere ."--New York Mayor Giuliani is either reading from his new children's book or displaying his trademark dismissiveness and contempt for citizens who disagree with him, in this case street vendors he's throwing out of work.