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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...extradited to France under a warrant claiming she was complicit in the downing of a plane that killed Rwanda's then President and two French pilots. The attack helped spark the 1994 Rwandan genocide in which some 800,000 people perished. Kagame denounced the arrest, calling it "total contempt" for his nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

Burundi law enforcement officials are holding former Shorenstein fellow Alexis Sinduhije in custody for allegedly expressing contempt for the country’s president...

Author: By Marianna N Tishchenko, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sinduhije Held in Burundi | 11/18/2008 | See Source »

...While the absurdities and excesses of Obama supporters’ joyous effusion may prove an amusing object of contempt for the many not similarly thrilled by last Tuesday’s outcome, the new President’s pseudo-religious following among the youth may prove a dangerous precedent...

Author: By Christopher B. Lacaria | Title: Another Great Awakening | 11/10/2008 | See Source »

...rest of the world that the White House is getting greener would be to send a high-level delegation along - or even stop by himself. It's important to realize that much of the rest of the world's disdain for America originates in Bush's apparent contempt for international climate action, first indicated by his withdrawal from the Kyoto Protocol process not long after taking office. Changing that attitude - even if real progress doesn't happen immediately, which it won't - would go a long way toward repairing America's image in the world. "The world needs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Offsetting Bush's Green Legacy: Advice for No. 44 | 11/3/2008 | See Source »

...recent campus efforts to reduce Harvard’s carbon footprint, and the excessive lengths to which the administration has gone to promote them, threaten to render the whole project ridiculous and inspire contempt for the cause in the minds of most reasonable observers...

Author: By Christopher B. Lacaria | Title: It’s Not Easy Being Green | 10/27/2008 | See Source »

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