Word: complicit
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...best traits to attack nihilism and alienation in America by challenging the prevailing discourse and undertaking political and economic ventures to create change. If our generation fails to reclaim its most powerful cultural achievement from those who would put profit before progress, we will undoubtedly end up complicit in a larger moral catastrophe...
...siblings in a shotgun shack without heat or running water in Texas. We learned that Gonzales sold soft drinks at Rice University football games and that he later graduated from Rice and Harvard Law School. We were introduced to his splendid family. And we also learned that Gonzales was complicit, at the very least, in the Bush Administration's decision to use severe physical interrogation techniques on detainees at Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and elsewhere...
...among international diplomats engaged with the crisis. "We've tried the carrot approach; we've tried the stick approach. And we're getting nowhere," outgoing U.S. ambassador to the U.N. John Danforth, told the international body last Tuesday. "Both sides - the rebels, and the government and the militia - are complicit in this disaster. They sign agreements, which apparently mean nothing at all." For now, no one - neither the government nor the rebels, and least of all Darfur's civilians - believes that the cease-fire can be salvaged. "I think I'll stay here for my year," says Major Per-Erik...
Harvard made headlines this week after a University of Oklahoma historian published a paper severely scrutinizing the University’s association with Hitler’s Nazi regime. Full of anecdotes suggesting that the University was complicit in forming “deliberate ties” with the Nazis, Professor Stephen H. Norwood’s presentation at Boston University provoked curious outrage, and now some are calling for Harvard to issue a public apology for old anti-Semitism...
...eyebrows on a campus that strives to protect any infringement of rights, no matter how small. In the 1980’s, students equated Harvard’s holdings in companies active in South Africa with university complicity in apartheid. Is the university not today, for the same reasons, complicit in the genocide in Sudan and the sponsorship of terrorism in states such as Iran...