Word: dismissed
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...Somali government and local observers rush to dismiss the concern, saying Al Itihad was mostly destroyed as a military force in a cross-border showdown with the Ethiopian military in 1996. They claim its fighters have dispersed and the movement exists today primarily as a politically-motivated welfare group. "They were an armed force but now we don't know of any camps in Somalia," says President Hassan. "We invite the Americans to come here and investigate...
There are substantive debates to be had over the merits of cutting taxes, drilling in the Arctic, letting the private sector provide airport security and a host of other Republican priorities. But it is an act of intellectual dereliction to categorically dismiss those ideas as nothing but partisan favoritism. Winning the battle for public opinion requires a more sophisticated argument than prattling about how ghastly it is for Republicans to disagree with Democrats. Voices from the left ought to drop their scary stories and at least try to put up a real fight...
Whether in government command centers or media newsrooms, limited information emerging from Afghanistan is rightly treated with skepticism, even if clearly sourced. But governments make a self-defeating mistake if they dismiss it all as "lies," especially when it creates the impression that military errors with civilian casualties have occurred. The old Pentagon mindset prevailed when first it denied, then grudgingly confirmed, that its planes bombed four well-marked Red Cross warehouses, a U.N. demining depot and the Herat hospital. To retain credibility and what may become increasingly fragile global support, officials must acknowledge that Taliban videos and claims...
Sometimes it is tempting for Harvard students to dismiss school spirit as infantile or irrelevant. But students and faculty should be proud of their football team. Varsity athletes don’t compete every week for their own aggrandizement, but to add to the prestige of the University. Every victory that our sports teams achieve shows that Harvard students can excel outside of the classroom as well as within...
...film attempts to make Newman into a hero with the quietly dramatic ending. However, it is hard to dismiss the prejudice and hatred he had for Jews throughout the script. In reality, he is no hero—he is an everyman, one who has striven his entire life only for calm, order and self-preservation. When he becomes associated with the people he hates, he comes eventually to realize several things about the nature of prejudice and the experience of being victimized mentally and physically. However, his actions are by no means heroic, and so Focus sends a powerful...