Word: ethnicize
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...among those enthusiasts. In San Rafael, Calif., last Wednesday, 75 attendees packed the back room of the Limelight restaurant. There were veteran campaigners and neophytes, a few Kerry supporters willing to be convinced and even a couple of Republicans angry at Bush--but not a single non-Caucasian. An ethnic-outreach subcommittee was swiftly announced...
...Iranian, American and Zionist forces which have occupied our religious cities." Maps depicting Kuwait as a territory of Iraq. "Fixing education is as important as repairing the physical infrastructure," says Joanne Giordano of the U.S. Agency for International Development, which is coordinating the purge. "Stuff that's offensive to ethnic and religious groups...
...prison sentences on charges of weapons possession and obstruction of justice, following a two-day trial criticized by international press groups and human-rights organizations as a sham. The two journalists were arrested on June 4 in the country's northeast, where they were reporting on an insurgency by ethnic Hmong guerrillas. A Hmong-American interpreter was also freed, but two Laotian guides remained in prison. Brutal Youth JAPAN A 12-year-old boy admitted murdering 4-year-old Shun Tanemoto by pushing him off the roof of an eight-story parking garage, leading shocked Japanese to question their laws...
...conversation was stilted. What I’d stumbled upon was an end-of-the-road hideaway in an area now controlled by Bosnian Muslims. Perhaps this small Catholic cell had been here during the ethnic cleansing, or maybe they were shuffled here thereafter—either way, this was the Church’s frontier crew, antisocial monstrosities of the kind created by a millenium-plus of facing repression with dogged determination...
This strange group gave me a so-called “ticket” (which was little more than an illegible message on pink stationery) and directed me to a contact in the multi-ethnic town of Tuzla. There I found a man named Fra Peter in the postmodern hellishness of Tuzla’s Franciscan stronghold, a concrete building replete with bomb-proof glass and giant iron gates that obscure passers-by’s view of the many statues of St. Francis, Mary and Jesus inside the immaculate garden. The scribbles-on-pink...