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NBA commissioner Adam Silver has called cap circumvention “a cardinal sin.”

"Allowing millions of human beings to live -- and die -- victims of hunger is a collective failure, an ethical aberration, a historical sin," Leo said in a speech at the Rome-based UN agricultural agency.

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A worse sin, even, than Amin’s expulsion in 1972 of every last Ugandan Asian, an act that was wildly popular with black Ugandans but which beggared Uganda almost overnight.

In a previous interview, you discussed sin and guilt as the themes of this work.

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I make this observation not for the sin of pride but to showcase how queer folk have received the message that any expression of Pride can attract the stomp.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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