Word: discreditably
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...told several people in the magazine's Boston-area office of the relationship. "She was having fun," says a staff member. "She didn't raise any ethical concerns. She was on Cloud 9." At one point, she reportedly flaunted an expensive bracelet--a gift from Welch. "Much to our discredit," the staffer says, "no one came forward to challenge her the way we should have." Kiechel has organized a task force to clarify guidelines about author- subject fraternization. How this will affect Wetlaufer remains to be seen; her publicist says the relationship with Welch continues...
...thinking I knew what the counter-protesters stood for. I figured that if the protesters were pro-human rights and anti-occupation, then surely the counter-protesters must have been anti-human rights and pro-occupation? They were, after all, staging a loud and angry counter-protest intending to discredit the Palestinian rights supporters...
...have hired a lawyer, but Slobodan Milosevic is acting as his own defense attorney in court. In an aggressive cross-examination that sought to discredit the prosecution's first witness, he questioned Kosovo Albanian political leader for almost four hours, twice as long as prosecutors. Bakali testified Monday about the "apartheid state" Serb leaders imposed on Kosovo's ethnic Albanians after Slobodan Milosevic's rise to power. He also testified that during his meetings with the former president, he informed Milosevic that Serb forces were committing crimes against ethnic Albanians, particularly the 1998 massacre of the Jashari family. Mahmut Bakali...
...HAITI Whose Plot Foiled? Police blamed veterans for a failed bid to oust President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. A former colonel and an ex-soldier were arrested, while two dozen other suspects were still at large. But the opposition claimed the coup attempt was a government setup designed to discredit Aristide's opponents...
...calls to smash capitalism, the angry young men with their faces covered in bandanas - have taken on a whole new meaning in the wake of a terrorist attack on the heart of the global financial system. Some politicians have gone so far as to use the attacks to discredit the movement. Clare Short, Britain's Secretary of State for International Development, told the Times: "Their demands turned out to be very similar to those of bin Laden's network...