Word: feared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Chile's sky hasn't fallen in. And despite Madeleine Albright's fear that General Augusto Pinochet's extradition would destabilize the fledgling democracy, Chileans actually appear to be growing tired of the saga. "The military and a small number of right-wing protesters vented their frustration in tough talk following Britain's decision," says TIME reporter Elizabeth Love. "But there's no threat to democracy." After all, there would be little logic in the military again seizing power when the civilian government has already exhausted all diplomatic means of winning Pinochet's release...
...fear that what the Crimson staff meant to say, if they had been forthright, is that students' ties to evangelical Christianity frightens them in a way that, say, students' involvement with ethnic or progressive groups does not. The Crimson displays a severe double standard; a good number of the council presidential and vice-presidential candidates have ties to a wide variety of student groups, but the Crimson staff does not cite those ties as hindrances to those candidates' effectiveness. It seems that among liberals, bias against religion may be one of the last acceptable prejudices. ADAM R. KOVACEVICH...
...Conservative Republicans were evidently apprehensive, with good cause, about their basic instincts. This fear led to a heightened self-righteousness and inflamed passion to punish the President for his misdemeanor. But the Republicans carried on the flogging too long, and the people got weary. The Bard of Stratford-upon-Avon wrote in his immortal words addressed to the man flogging the whore, "Strip thine own back;/ Thou hotly lust'st to use her in that kind,/ For which thou whipp'st her" (King Lear). NARAYAN SWAMY Chennai, India...
Indonesia is sliding into darkness. The Nov. 22 killings were a first for Jakarta, but since late summer there have been more than 250 lynchings across the archipelago. The killings seem to be a product of fear, economic frustration and a breakdown of law and order as security forces are withdrawn from the provinces to cover demonstrations in the cities. In Sumatra recently a man was beaten and burned alive because he couldn't tell suspicious residents the precise address of a relative he was visiting. "The reality principle is breaking down," says Professor Sarlito Wirawan Sarwono of the University...
Bezos says he isn't fazed. "I tell my employees they shouldn't be afraid of our competitors--they're not the ones who give us money," he says. "They should be afraid of our customers." So go fear and retailing in cyberspace...