Beneath the hatred, though, is a serious delusion we all seem to have been infected by, which is that (a) beauty is a fixed category that exists outside cultural and commercial contexts that decree, for example, that tall blondes are beautiful and (b) that women all crave beauty and shun those who have it.
But in August, Mr. Morsi won the backing of many other generals and officers for a decree that returned the army to its barracks and left him in sole control of the government, with executive and legislative authority.
In 2009 he sued Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung for approving a controversial Chinese-run bauxite mining operation in the Central Highlands and last year he sued him again for signing a decree that prohibited class-action lawsuits.
The devaluation is expected to be preceded or accompanied, for instance, by a decree that shifts rents and debts currently denominated in dollars, like mortgages and car loans, into pesos.
(Another bill proposed by Congress seeks changes in nutritional guidelines for lunches, decreeing that there can be no limits on potatoes and that pizza can remain a vegetable).
And for the most part, I don't hold designers accountable for decreeing that to which I should aspire.
His vanity tempted him to disguise the waning of his influence by accepting responsibility for decrees that neither came from him nor accorded with his views.
The idea that God decreed, for any reason, that my brother and over a million other Jewish children should be brutally murdered by the Nazis in gas chambers, terminal medical experiments, typhus epidemics, and through deliberate starvation is a theological abomination in and of itself.
The Liberty Baptist College student handbook, for instance, decrees that men are to wear ties to all classes.
The Basic Law, China's mini-constitution for Hong Kong, decrees that the executive is accountable to the Legislative Council (Legco).
