Word: defeatism
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...prominent human rights scholar, was elected to the House of Commons where he now sits as a Liberal. A former Kennedy School professor who holds a Ph.D. in History from Harvard, Ignatieff has since declared his candidacy for his party’s leadership. The Liberals suffered a historic defeat in January when the Conservatives took power for the first time in over 12 years...
...veil has become contagious," explains Nabila el-Hakim, a local haute couture designer who estimates that 60% of her customers are now veiled. "I am adding sleeves and closing cleavage." Experts say the trend is part of an Islamic cultural wave traced back to Israel's humiliating defeat of Egypt in the 1967 war. More recently, they say, the quest for a stronger Islamic identity led more women to take up the veil after the Sept. 11 attacks set off Muslim-Western tensions. As often as not, the pressure to veil is as much social as religious, with unveiled women...
...idea how to be a mother," says Cordery. When her husband died in 1931, Alice was asked if she would run for his seat. But "Alice couldn't slap backs and kiss babies," Cordery says. Instead, she commented from the sidelines, observing that Wendell Wilkie, the Republican hope to defeat F.D.R. in 1940, enjoyed support from "the grass roots of 10,000 country clubs...
...portrait of Osama Bin Laden with a black question mark over his face would have made a more appropriate cover image. I am concerned that Americans are starting to believe bin Laden does not exist, Iraq caused 9/11 and war is the only way to defeat fundamentalists...
...despite her problems, Arroyo's future may be slightly more stable. An expansion of the value-added tax she pushed through last year is producing higher-than-expected revenues to help refill the country's depleted treasury. Her congressional supporters say they have the numbers to defeat the impeachment bids. And while the opposition has a surplus of complaints, they lack a unifying candidate to oppose her. It's a weakness that isn't lost on the average Filipino. "Is there an alternative?" sighs Dencio Ugok, a taxi driver in Manila. It's hardly a rousing vote of confidence...