"These people have a closed mind, and they have taken an ugly decision," I was told by a young doctor named Moaz Abdelkarim, who was suspended from the Brotherhood just before the elections began in November.
This is where Shahzad's case enters the broader immigration debate, for with the mounting numbers of legal and illegal aliens to America, and the complexity of regional enmities that we import, we face a host of ugly triage decisions.
Unfortunately, MCA studios turned the film down as they apparently thought that the protagonist was too "ugly", a decision that rankled with Hitchcock for the rest of his life.
As more and more people go online, with higher and higher speeds, an Internet service provider is faced with an ugly economic decision: Either keep its old, typically T-1 (1.5 megabit per second) links to the Internet backbone and watch them get more and more congested, resulting in frustrated customers; or spend more money to upgrade the pipes and get more bandwidth, but pay for it.
"If Trump decides to end DACA, it will be one of the ugliest and cruelest decisions ever made by a president in our modern history," Bernie Sanders said Sunday.
Many Democrats were scathing in their response to the news, with Sen. Bernie Sanders tweeting: "If Trump decides to end DACA, it will be one of the ugliest and cruelest decisions ever made by a president in our modern history".
After two weeks of wretched play, of red-zone turnovers and faulty decisions and ugly throws, Sanchez deserved a game ball Sunday.
When the show is working, it can be a gripping, timely meditation on the ugly, pragmatic and questionable decisions made by individuals on the front lines of a war even they don't fully understand.
This cripples conversation, for no good reason, and it's clearly a deliberate design decision: an ugly, clumsy, and completely inexplicable misstep.
As a high school coach and a person who often works with young men, I see the ugly results of poor decision making all the time.
