Word: disrespectfully
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...outside experts before the summit, Bush telegraphed an intense desire for his first encounter with Putin to go smoothly. In the first few months after taking office, Bush was under constant assault by European allies for his unilateralist foreign policy, including his snubbing of Moscow. Among the signs of disrespect: the ouster from the U.S. of 50 alleged Russian diplomat-spies in March 2001, the five-month delay before setting a first Bush-Putin meeting, and the threat, since carried out, to withdraw unilaterally from the 1972 U.S.-Soviet Antiballistic Missile Treaty in order to build a national missile-defense...
When it counts the suicide bomber among the victims, the Palestinian leadership reveals the profound disrespect it has for its own people. To be a victim, the bomber must have no choice about committing the crime—this is what the Palestinian authorities claim. The Israeli occupation has so abused the Palestinian people, so humiliated them, that the people are desperate and cannot control themselves. But this is a demeaning view of the Palestinian people because humans always have a choice. There have been many oppressed peoples who did not attack innocent civilians. Some groups, with enormous amounts...
...departure of Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 for Princeton is undoubtedly a major blow to Harvard University. However, in the aftermath of his decision to leave, what is most shocking is not that West has chosen to leave, but rather the level of disrespect he and his supporters are being shown by members of this community. Nowhere is such insolence demonstrated more than in the Crimson staff’s editorial “A Childish Departure” printed April 18, 2002. The piece is little more than a shallow misrepresentation of student sentiments...
...check in” with him every few months and update him on the process of his academic work. West certainly is not above being questioned by the president of this University; Summers is indeed his boss. However, Summers had no right to show such blatant disrespect to a man that is the second most cited scholar in his field and the fourth most cited of Harvard’s 16 University Professors. I am quite sure that he has not asked the other 15 to check in with him regularly...
...know when someone’s keeping you down,” Vasquez says. “I see a lot of strides between Latinos and blacks, because they’re facing the same disrespect...