Word: blots
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...vendetta ahead of the welfare of his troops. Kenneth J. Wiebe Chilliwack, Canada Sins of the Son U.N. secretary-general Kofi Annan has an image as the world's most trusted diplomat [Dec. 13]. The alleged involvement of his son in the oil-for-food scandal has put a blot on his father's reputation. But why should a father suffer for the sins of the son? It is for the father to decide how he should present his moral strength to the world. A. Jacob Sahayam Trivandrum, India Time to Move? The United Nations is automatically associated with...
...biggest blot on Bush's record may be his failure to take his required annual physical in 1972. As a result, he was suspended from flying--an embarrassment for serious pilots. In years past, the Bush campaign claimed he missed the physical because his personal physician was in Houston. Now the White House says Bush did not need to take the physical, since he did not intend to fly during his stint in Alabama. New egregious claims about Bush's service are made in four memos released by CBS last Wednesday dating from 1972 and 1973. The network...
...that the Bharatiya Janata Party is not a rightist Hindu party. In the past it had links to Hindu nationalist outfits, but under the constraints of governing coalitions, it has taken a more secular stance. The 2002 Gujarat riots, in which 2,000 Muslims were killed, were indeed a blot, but India remains a tolerant country with a majority of its people supporting secular viewpoints. It has a Muslim President and now a Sikh Prime Minister. The irony of the subcontinent is that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of India was born in the western Punjab, now part of Pakistan...
...wrote his son, "I do object to your taking one in Hanover, while in college, if the rules of the college do not permit it. ... Abide by the decision of the authorities (and) serve your full sentence conscientiously. (M)ake an attempt the next few weeks to eradicate this blot from your good record...
Some allegiances matter more than others, and Sweden proved the point. No one in that country, grieving over the senseless murder of the pro-euro Foreign Minister, Anna Lindh (see box), considered it a blot on her memory that 56% of those voting wanted to keep the krona. Indeed, it was largely in her honor that 82.6% of the electorate turned out to vote - they paid their respects by participating, not by agreeing with her. Their anti-euro sentiment is shared by many in the U.K. Two key factors drive that opposition, and prevent Tony Blair from calling a referendum...