Word: disdained
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...their eyes, Shoei Asai, the 70-year-old leader of a religious sect called Nichiren Kenshokai, is a healer and a prophet who envisions a looming calamity for Japan that he alone can avert. "Asai sensei understands" says Kazuhito Suzuki, a disillusioned, young construction worker who professes nothing but disdain for Japan's establishment and despair for the future. "He has the answers...
...that he cut deals to secure his personal freedom while the circumstances of ordinary West Bank Palestinians continued to deteriorate in the face of a tightening Israeli blockade. And the militants of Hamas, Islamic Jihad and even the grassroots of Arafat's own Fatah organization have made clear their disdain for their leadership's calls for restraint in order to revive a peace process. Palestinian security structures, meanwhile, are the subject of intensive reform and resuscitation efforts led by the U.S., while Israeli troops continue to maintain effective security control over the formerly off-limits PA-run towns...
...have created a new crime classification: oyaji gari, or geezer hunting. Police don't keep stats on such crimes, but say they are increasingly routine. Earlier this year, two boys were convicted of beating to death a banker on a Tokyo train platform?a nihilistic attack whose impulse was disdain. Survivors rarely talk about what happened to them because they're ashamed they couldn't defend themselves. "Men my age are afraid to walk home alone at night," confesses Jinsuke Kageyama, 54, a criminologist in Tokyo. "We call our wives to pick us up at the train station...
...excesses, about the way his ruling circle assesses 7% "for the family" on every business deal. But 30 years of Saddam have instilled in Iraqis a reflexive habit of survival. They seem too tired, too disillusioned, too frightened of one another to plot serious conspiracies. And they have total disdain for the opposition exiles scheming abroad...
...Many Palestinians share Washington's disdain for the corruption, cynicism and authoritarianism of Arafat's administration, and are stridently demanding reform, democratization and accountability of the Palestinian Authority. But one of their demands is for a leadership that will more effectively challenge the Israeli occupation than Arafat has done. One of the major Palestinian criticisms of the PA has been that it failed to protect them from the Israeli onslaught, and that its security chiefs abandoned their men. Those pushing hardest for reform in the PA are also, in many instances, among the most strongly resistant to the idea that...