Word: extremist
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...regime. The President's powers are subject to limits. Reflecting the political chaos of revolutionary days, Iran's system is a jumble of conflicting and confusing centers of power. This looseness is what enables Iranians to have semifree elections, but it also gives cover to the regime's extremist elements. Many Iranians fear that the system may ultimately paralyze Khatami. He calls himself an independent, although he is a member of a clerical group aligned with leftists, including those who held American diplomats hostage for 444 days in 1979-81. Khatami's advisers say he hopes to benefit from...
...Burlington, Iowa, grocer, Matsch, 66, was appointed to the federal bench by Richard Nixon in 1974, and has presided over cases ranging from school desegregation to murder by extremist groups. He and his wife Elizabeth do not socialize much, and, apparently to avoid conflicts of interest, he often eats alone at law conventions. However, he is devoted to at least two things: his alma mater, the University of Michigan, and his hero, Atticus Finch, the small-town white lawyer assigned the unpopular task of defending a black man against rape charges in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Finch does...
...determine when a "cult" becomes a religion, especially in a land where freedom of religion is sacrosanct? My Random House unabridged dictionary defines cult as "a particular system of religious worship" and then, seven lines later, as "a religion or sect considered to be false, unorthodox or extremist." A cult, in other words, is a religion and isn't one, depending on who's looking...
Black days come all too often in Israel, and Friday was another. Members of the extremist group Hamas gave their own judgment when they shattered the Jewish holiday afternoon in downtown Tel Aviv with a powerful bomb. As costumed merrymakers paraded down the city's streets to celebrate Purim, which commemorates the deliverance of the Jews in ancient Persia from a plot to slaughter them, a man entered one of the cafes and detonated himself, killing three Israelis and injuring at least 47 more. A six-month-old girl, her tiny, blood-soaked body cradled in a policewoman's arms...
...Israeli charges that Arafat explicitly gave the go-ahead for attacks such as last week's explosion in a Tel Aviv caf? that killed three Israeli women, electronic recordings of conversations between Arafat and Hamas leaders show that by not expressly forbidding a resumption of suicide bombings, Arafat gave extremist leaders the impression that he would support such a decision, the paper said. The conversations followed on the heels of a trip to Washington in early March where the Palestinian leader was criticized for looking the other way while Hamas and the Islamic Jihaad geared up for fresh terrorist attacks...