Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact, Arafat's security men were primed for a battle. Before being dispatched to the mosque, they had been briefed by senior officers. Says a policeman: "We were told that Hamas people are provocateurs, and that they are big haters of the Palestinian Authority and want to destroy the autonomy." He adds, "We were not nice today because we arrived at the mosque with our faces already red with anger...
...Western image. He announced that he was "no ! nationalist" and wanted "to be a friend and not an enemy." Listening to the warm message, I found it hard to believe that only a few days before in Moscow, he had been lambasting the U.S. for an alleged plot to destroy Russia, aided by Israel. How had this peddler of intolerance metamorphosed so smoothly into a mild-mannered missionary of goodwill...
...enemy in the literal sense of the word. There are no straightforward military actions. ((But)) a secret war has been going on for 50 years now . . . If your aim was to bring Russia to collapse, ((perestroika)) was perfectly executed because you could have done nothing better to destroy Russia...
...problem with women working is that they take away jobs that then could have. When women work outside the home, they destroy the family." --Kathy, a radio caller to Jim Hightower's Austin, Texas-based talk-show, quoted in the Boston Globe...
Perhaps the movie implies that we shouldn't be pouring money into programs that spawn hoop dreams, breed hopeful young basketball players, and then destroy their confidence to the point that they lose self-respect and likely become resentful of the system that encouraged them. Certainly any program that provides an alternative to the streets is better than nothing, but ideally an inner-city youth program wouldn't rely on the lore of the American basketball star for its appeal...