Word: cravenness
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...would further devastate the credibility of the national government and perhaps threaten the political future of China's new President, Hu Jintao. Until its attempts to come clean last week on the situation in the capital, the Hu government's approach to dealing with SARS had been both craven and ineffectual. After the disease surfaced in China's southern Guangdong province in November, party leaders quashed media reports about its existence, fearing the public would stay home during the Chinese New Year holiday rather than spend money that could spur the economy. By early March, when the government convened...
...toward care packages for American troops in Iraq for every case of French wine he sells, each emblazoned with a sign: "By purchasing this wine, a contribution has been made to our armed forces overseas." Merchants Guigal and Latour think that's a fine idea. But no similarly craven approach is likely to be taken by the French government. Pride has its price, but France is still hoping its dignity isn't part...
...Lincoln Craven-Brightman, four-and-a-half year-old. Lincoln’s dad, Howard Brightman, is a student at the Harvard School of Public Health. Planets. I also want to know about motorcycles and how to make cardboard airplanes...
...vicious lawless and reather an abandoned set of wretches." But today's Blackfeet want no one to forget that two of their warriors were killed in a skirmish sparked by Lewis' talk of selling arms to rival tribes. "We knew, 'There goes the neighborhood,'" says tribe member James Craven, a professor at Clark University in Vancouver, Wash. Diplomatic blunders also fueled a confrontation with the Teton Sioux, gatekeepers of the Missouri, whom Clark later called "the vilest miscreants of the savage race." LaDonna Bravebull, a Standing Rock tour guide, touts her ancestors' viewpoint as, "We're not taking your trinkets...
...both sides, the leadership, such as it is, grows more evasive, craven and empty. In a war of victims, no one plays the grownup. Among the Palestinians, effective moral authority now has a median age of 14 or 15 and a good throwing arm. Fathers and grandfathers have signed over their moral duties to the children in the streets. The traditional patriarchy begins to disintegrate...At the birth of Israel 42 years ago, one people crashed back into history, another spilled out of it. For the world's Jews, 1948 was a miracle after nearly 2,000 years of diaspora...