Word: contemptable
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...believe in the idea of education. Unlike the class systems in Europe, America's educational systems were the means for salvation, not only in making money but in allowing one to become a fully educated human being. That was an ideal with parents. Universities in general have nothing but contempt for that...
Resilient and proud even as she faces her community’s contempt, Viki struggles to help her family raise money to pay the fine and fights to restore her family’s good name. But Viki’s loyalty to the traditions of her native land is routinely rivaled by the expanding presence of modern Western influences, manifested throughout the film by the looming colonial government and its military presence...
...identity of a covert CIA officer during a tangled political dustup in the summer of 2003. TIME sought to quash the subpoena through most of 2004, but last week a federal appeals court ruled that Cooper and Judith Miller of the New York Times must testify or face civil contempt penalties, which usually means jail. Both TIME and the New York Times will appeal the ruling, going all the way to the Supreme Court if necessary...
...readable accomplishment--scholarship as a kind of savage gossip, history as a grisly Barbara Walters special, its sensationalism redeemed by Montefiore's deep grounding in the facts. It is a brilliant stroke, in any case, to describe Stalin and his immense crimes, the blood of millions, with the sardonic contempt and tabloid brio to which Montefiore's scholarship entitles...
...with democracy, at least for now. (The King says he will rule with a council of ministers for a maximum of three years.) The democratic experiment was a widely acknowledged failure, it's true. In those 14 years, Nepal has had 14 different governments, and the public's mounting contempt for politicians has helped fuel a Maoist insurgency that has cost the lives of 11,000 people since 1996. Having witnessed the Maoist movement's transformation from a ragtag rebel group to a ruthless force of 10,000-15,000 that controls some two-thirds of Nepal, the King said...