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Olhão used to be described as the “little white Cubist town of the Algarve,” its architecture likened to that of North African towns.
Le Monde of Paris, under the striking headline "Hell Is American," was particularly strong in its condemnation of the Starr report, which it likened to the Spanish Inquisition.
President Clinton and several liberal columnists have already likened Shepard's death to that of James Byrd, the black man who was dragged to his death by three white men in a pickup truck earlier this year.
"There is incredible symbolism about being tied to a fence," one gay activist told the Times . "People have likened it to a scarecrow.
When they relented and displayed their grief, they were likened to President Clinton (for feeling others' pain) and scorned for pandering to public opinion.