Word: disaffectedness
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As evidence slowly mounts that the terrorists - or at least most of them - came across the Arabian Sea from Pakistan to wreak their mayhem on Mumbai, the geopolitical reverberations of the carnage are beginning to resonate. Pakistan was hacked off the stooped shoulders of India by the departing British in...
For two decades, a succession of Pakistani military leaders have made it a point to support, finance, equip and train Islamist militants to conduct terrorist operations in India. The logic is clear: it is more cost-effective to bleed India from within than to challenge it through more conventional military...
After McCain named Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, some pundits predicted that some disaffected Clinton supporters would vote Republican in order to see a woman in the White House. But Clinton supporters on campus said they did not see the two female candidates as comparable.
But the sex-and-misconduct scandal was hardly Kilpatrick's first brush with controversy. At 31, he was the youngest mayor in Detroit's history - alternately dubbed "King Kwame" and the nation's first "hip-hop mayor" - and seemed to embody the glamorous lifestyle of a paparazzi-starved star. He...
The Gist: Sixteen of India's best known writers travel across the country to document and observe areas and communities that are most vulnerable to the HIV/AIDS crisis - transgendered men and women of the "hijra" community; sex workers and their families in Mumbai; truckers who spend most of their lives...