Word: blackmailer
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That did not bring the conflict to a complete close, but it signaled the beginning of the end. Over the next few years, all four of the Barbary States signed treaties with America renouncing piracy, kidnapping and blackmail. Algiers had to be bombarded a few more times, and there was an awkward moment during negotiations in Washington when the Tunisian representative, Sidi Soliman Melli Melli, made it clear that he expected to be amused at public expense by some ladies of the night. (Jefferson and Secretary of State Madison were able to arrange an off-the-record State Department budget...
...Linda Barnes’ newest novel, Deep Pockets, Carlyle investigates the blackmail of a Harvard Medical School professor, Wilson Chaney. After prying into the suicide of an undergraduate with whom he has an affair, Chaney is mysteriously blackmailed and threatened. Private eye Carlyle untangles the web between Chaney and his colleagues, his wife and the undergraduate’s ex-con ex-boyfriend. The book deals with lies and intrigue; lo and behold, the path to truth is fraught with hidden danger. Ultimately, Carlyle digs too deep and ends up in a fix herself...
It’s disappointing that Harvard and the federal government have come to this impasse, but it is even more shameful that Congress is attempting to blackmail the University. Harvard should stay the course with its policy on ROTC and attempt through all the means at its disposal to reverse the federal government’s mistaken course. If it does not, Harvard will end up facing an undesirable, if apparent, choice of surrendering a vast wealth of federal funds or its principles...
...ever since Bush declared his "skepticism" about the regime. "I loathe Kim Jong Il," he told author Bob Woodward. "I've got a visceral reaction to this guy because he is starving his people." Bush said that, unlike the Clinton Administration, his would not submit to Kim's nuclear blackmail by rewarding the obdurate nation for abandoning its illicit ambitions. For the next 18 months, North Korea was pretty much ignored...
...which ostensibly finds a friend in Putin. More pernicious, however, is the dangerous trend this situation represents. Khodorovsky and Gusinsky are using the pull of American investors in Russian oil companies and Americans supportive of Sharon against Putin. Thus, while fractured in their individual ambitions, both are trying to blackmail the United States to get what they want at home...