Word: alienable
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...Muslim businessman from Sarajevo who now camps with his wife, two children and 100 other people in a sports hall in downtown Zagreb. He says the drumbeat of Serbian leaders, who declare that any Serb who doesn't join the battle is a traitor, has made Sarajevo an alien place. "I used to have the feeling I knew half the city," he says. "Now that's gone...
White House campaign officials insist Bush did not let election-year politics dictate his decision, but Ira Kurzban, lawyer for Miami's Haitian Refugee Center, believes otherwise. "The Haiti policy," he says, "plays to the basest part of the Republican Party, the anti-alien group, the racists, to keep them from crossing over to Ross Perot...
...increasing partisanship and uncertainpolitical future must appear alien to Cambridge--aone-party city whose charter declares that therewill be no partisanship...
...ALIEN 3 IS SET IN A MAXIMUM-SECURITY prison at the far, forgotten end of the universe. This dark landscape bespeaks an ambition to rise above sequel status. So does a glum, distancing story, in which Sigourney Weaver's Warrant Officer Ripley, depressed and, yes, alienated, feels pretty much at home in the society of outcasts where her spaceship has accidentally landed. Eventually they join her in the fight against one of the big, nasty creatures she has unknowingly brought with her. But 29-year-old director David Fincher doesn't yet know how to scare us witless...
...about," he says, "simply because I don't know my way around the codes. But the actual Japanese method, the actual approach, I think I'm quite at home with -- because I've been brought up in middle-class England." Japan, as Wilde might have said, is only as alien as ourselves...