Word: defenselessness
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...past, Katyn signified mass murder committed in 1940 in a forest just west of the Russian town of Smolensk by troops of the Soviet Union, who killed defenseless Polish prisoners of war. The victims of the atrocity accounted for much of Poland's military as well as intellectual elite. The second Katyn tragedy - the April 10 crash on the approach to Smolensk airport of a plane carrying dignitaries to a ceremony commemorating that very 1940 massacre - led to the death of nearly 100 of the top political personalities of a newly independent, and once again democratic, Poland. Those who died...
...we’d all just like to call 24/7 Wall St. a big bully. The kind of institution that swaggers onto the university playground, walks up to bright-eyed and defenseless Harvard, pokes him in the chest, and calls him “Worst Managed Endowment” just to see him cry. But does the bully have a point? Or is it simplistic to assume that having the largest loss automatically means our endowment is the "worst managed...
Even for a country long hardened to election violence, the massacre of at least 57 defenseless civilians on the main southern island of Mindanao, many of them relatives and supporters of a local politician and a large group of journalists, sets a new low. This troubled corner of the Philippines usually makes headlines for its long-running Muslim separatist rebellion. But the killings starkly exposed a nationwide malaise: the fierce competition for regional power among the country's small élite of a few hundred families and clans that control an inordinate amount of the national wealth - and the desperate...
...book, you talked a lot about anti-consumerists, calling them them 'buy scolds' and 'ad bashers'. Do you agree? Do you think advertising agents are as nefarious as some people make them out to be? Anti-consumer groups do have a point, but they assume that we are defenseless as consumers, and that we don't see through advertising as well as we do. I think most people do see through it, if only because advertising is just so ubiquitous. If nothing else, I think that the advertising community has hurt itself by putting out so many...
...Despite the image he is trying to project of a lone individual squaring off against a heartless judicial machine, Karadzic is far from defenseless. He has assembled a formidable team of some 30 legal advisers, headed by Patrick Robinson, an American lawyer who once worked for the ICTY. For the past several months, the team has showered the tribunal with more than 400 motions and appeals, causing substantial delays to the process...