Word: blacklisted
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...Harvard’s regret, the University should offer a more full apology by granting posthumous honorary diplomas to the students who were not allowed to complete earning their Harvard degrees. In many cases, these students could not complete their schooling elsewhere because of the University’s blacklist...
...unconditional" inspections, and hope to return simply to the pre-1998 status quo - a prospect flatly rejected by Washington, and also by the Europeans. It remains to be seen whether Baghdad will seek to continue preventing inspections of Saddam's palaces and other politically sensitive sites, or to blacklist inspectors believed to be spying for the U.S. Russia and Iraq's Arab neighbors will likely be doing their utmost to persuade Saddam that he has no alternative but to swallow whatever the UN demands. The Iraqi leader's own instinct will to use any discord between...
Yang is president of the Boston-based Foundation for China in the 21st Century, and according to his wife, is on a Chinese government blacklist of 49 dissidents Chinese citizens who cannot return to their homeland...
...enjoying the glow of a growing friendship with the U.S. Washington liked the way he reined in his party's hotheads and diluted its hard-line agenda, and admired his skill at holding together his fractious coalition for an unprecedented three years. He had almost persuaded the U.S. to blacklist Pakistan as a terrorist state for supporting the Kashmir jihadis, while practicing admirable restraint by not retaliating directly against Pakistan...
...Bush Administration has made fumbling attempts to justify the shadow detentions. At first Ashcroft claimed that the detainees' identities were being kept secret for their own benefit--to prevent the creation of a McCarthy-style blacklist. When that explanation was widely derided, the Justice Department offered a new justification: that some of the detainees were members of "sleeper cells" and that law enforcement did not want to tell the enemy which of its agents were out of commission. "We might as well mail this list to the Osama bin Laden al-Qaeda network as to release it," Ashcroft said...