Mr. Qadi, the pro-government writer, labeled the killers "criminals who do not represent the Alawites" and called on the government to immediately "acknowledge what happened" and arrest "those hyenas".
In his 2011 memoir, Thoughts Without Cigarettes, he wrote of his struggle with the "ethnic" writer label and noted that even today there are few other Latino authors whose work has been awarded the same recognition.
The oriundi are often the first to be scapegoated after an early tournament exit – Gianni Brera, the legendary Italian football writer, labelled them "lazy" after the 1962 World Cup disappointment – but, as many point out, there is nothing inherent to these players that makes them less passionate about achieving an Italian victory.
People – writers, labels, readers – seem to like her, like that she's trustworthy, that she's grown up at the NME, that her weekends are spent at gigs, that she's friendly, intelligent, brave (putting Simon Cowell on their Christmas cover) and funny (ditto).
(Some modern writers label such nonsense numerical theology).
On your Nov. 5 letters page, letter writers labeled Hummer owners "self-centered" and "conformists".
Sillitoe became known as one of the Angry Young Men (a label he loathes and despises), a working-class writer (a label he also hates), the uneducated raw talent from up North (ditto; he hates almost every label with a passion).
An envelope from a barely literate writer is labeled: "Send to Rev. Billy Graham".
Richard Dawkins, the atheist writer, has labeled the millions spent a "con" and Mr. Camping a "raving loon".
Mr. Vance, whose career spanned six decades and some 60 books, was often called a science fiction writer, a label he disdained.
