Word: condemnable
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...heavily discriminated against, a fact well-documented by numerous Israeli NGOs. Its actions in Lebanon which displaced a third of the population and killed 1200 Lebanese civilians drew censure from all corners. To descend from his own ivory tower, Schor needs to understand that people are able to condemn the human rights abuses of both the Iranian regime, and the Israeli government. No state should be immune to legitimate criticism–including Israel...
...says there's a write-what-you-know element here: he and co-scribe Chris Collingwood spent years as temps, doing legal transcription and computer programming, respectively. "Work is just what most people do," he says. "Including us." Members of FOW don't lionize work, but they don't condemn it either. Rock bands traditionally write about white-collar work as corrupt (the Beatles' Taxman) or for suckers (Bachman-Turner Overdrive's Takin' Care of Business). FOW write about it the way country and folk singers write about manual labor: as a fact of life. Besides, Schlesinger adds, the life...
...proceeded to excoriate the plump party leaders and condemn "our tables groaning with sturgeon and caviar" bought at special stores closed to ordinary citizens. He ended by asking to be relieved of his duties, a favor the Party eventually granted by firing him from the Politburo early in 1988. To Yeltsin, it seemed to be the end of his career. "Perhaps the hardest period of my whole life was after my expulsion from the Politburo," he later wrote. "Gorbachev didn't send me into Siberian exile or to some far-flung foreign country; he put me in charge of construction...
...fails again to win the Democratic nomination? “Kucinich [has] more experience so he seems less afraid of taking strong stances,” says James E. Goldschmidt ’09, who attended the event. “Every Democrat running for President has to condemn the war, but they’re all going to do it differently.” Erika C. Helgen ’08 agrees that Kucinich is unique. “I think Kucinich is particularly interesting because he’s not your normal mainstream candidate,” Helgen...
...Whoever does not condemn Israeli military incursions...is not morally qualified to have an opinion on suicide bombing,” he said, drawing applause from part of the audience. “It’s Israel that occupies Palestine, not Palestine that occupies Israel...