Word: forbiddenness
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...Ghiglione, dean of Northwestern University's journalism school, "here's somebody working for the most powerful news organization in Chicago. What he did was an abuse of personal power and an abuse of the newspaper he worked for." That's the rationale Tribune editors used too: "Staff members are forbidden to use their position at the newspaper to gain advantage in personal activities." They insist her age was irrelevant, which has led to more questions. Does this mean no one can date anyone he has ever quoted--or anyone awed by his job? That policy would purge newsrooms...
...Cuba for the first time since the embargo began in 1962. Castro knows that if Cuba's 11 million people want more eggs (and meat, chicken and rice), gringo businessmen like Kelmer want a new market - as well as the cigars and other tourist delights that have been forbidden fruit for 40 years...
...Missiles: Iraq has already extended the range of its missiles beyond UN-approved limits, and recently built a test stand for the development of missiles capable of flying 600 miles, putting NATO member states Turkey and Greece within range. Iraq is also procuring forbidden materials for use in this illegal program...
...Deception: Iraq never came clean to the UN inspectors it has forbidden from entering the country since 1998. It has "learned lessons from previous UN weapons inspections and has already begun to conceal sensitive equipment and documentation in advance of the return of inspectors...
...spirits from the mainland's glory days materialized in Toronto. Tian Zhuang-zhuang and Chen Kaige both made their international mark in 1993: Tian with The Blue Kite, Chen with Farewell My Concubine. Both films won festival prizes abroad; both were banned at home, and Tian was forbidden to make movies for seven years. His comeback film, Springtime in a Small Town, is a remake of a 1948 film by the Shanghai director Fei Mu. A young married couple lives in a kind of genteel torpor, broken by the arrival of the wife's ex-lover. More a still life...