Word: apartheid
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...Fortunately, the story becomes fascinating about two-thirds of the way in, as Aitkenhead and her spouse find themselves in South Africa's heart of darkness. Hoping to discover a place where the club scene is relatively fresh and innocent, they stumble instead into a post-apartheid netherworld where the Ecstasy is plentiful but so is the agony. Drug gangsters prowl the dusty streets, gunshot blasts mix with the electronic dancebeats, and racism has merely developed more nuance. This is where the author's journalism chops really come into play, and the result is intensely compelling. One can envision...
...campaign for divestment parallels a similar movement undertaken nearly two decades ago to force the University to divest from investment in apartheid era South Africa...
Professors who signed the petition said a parallel with apartheid-era South Africa was an appropriate...
...said Israel is conducting a morally justified war of self-defense and that there is no parallel between Israel and apartheid-era South Africa...
...Israel's international political and diplomatic position could be immense. President Bush stands alone among world leaders in expressing any understanding for Sharon's campaign. In the European Union, Israel finds itself the target of a storm of protest and a clamor for sanctions more familiar to the anti-apartheid movement of the 1980s. And while the doves in Sharon's cabinet have pressed for a positive response to the Arab League's overture offering normalization of relations in exchange for withdrawal to 1967 boundaries, instead they've seen even those Arab states with which Israel currently has peace treaties...