Word: complicit
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...certain cultures, we perpetuate racism.” Whatever its intentions, the museum system as it exists has indeed been responsible for the exclusion of numerous collections of ethnic art. If the problem is not rectified in light of the new Quincy Street museum, Harvard is complicit in the neglect of art that is viable, interesting, and worthy of public viewing...
...Since their wealth depends on power, our leaders are never ready to admit defeat." Incumbents like Kibaki, Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe and Uganda's Yoweri Museveni are among those who tried to alter their country's constitutions--some successfully--to cling to power. African voters are to some extent complicit in the undermining of democracy. When given an opportunity to vote out one corrupt leader, they often elect another, hoping he will be more generous with his ill-gotten gains...
...could be talking about The Wire, which doesn't just show the tragedy but gets behind it, demonstrating how we're all complicit in a more-with-less culture, but also all cheated by it, all frustrated by its vicious cycles and all called on by small voices to rise above it anyway. This common humanity--call it stubbornness or call it conscience--is the final connecting wire of The Wire. It may be frayed, it may be poorly maintained, but it is all we have left. For four seasons and what is shaping up as one searing, elegiac season...
...highly autocratic. Within her Pakistan People's Party, she had herself declared the lifetime president and refused to let her brother Mir Murtaza challenge her for its leadership. He was shot dead by police officers while Benazir was Prime Minister; his wife Ghinwa and daughter Fatima believe Benazir was complicit in having him killed. She colluded in wider human-rights abuses. Amnesty International accused her government of having one of the world's worst records of custodial deaths, abductions, killings and torture...
...back in the impersonal murk of a ‘real city.’ While the frenzied, all-or-nothing theatricality of these early electoral contests would appear to be the product of willful collaboration between the media, the candidates themselves, and their voting public, many complicit city-folk remain dissatisfied: if only the stage were set in a more cultured locale. For those Americans with an ocean view—and the inflated sense of self that comes with it—the two-month drone of pre-caucus news from landlocked, lumpy Iowa draws more than...