Word: freedom
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...disarmed”. Subsequently, when public support of the war started diminishing, Clinton’s perspective changed accordingly—a change politicized further by her refusal to honestly accept her vote as a mistake. In its place, she shirked blame, arguing that President Bush implemented Operation Iraqi Freedom poorly. She has also criticized the May 2007 troop surge, offensively proclaiming that if Iraqis are “not going to stand up and take responsibility, we should not lose another American life...
...WERE ON OUR WAY, we hoped, to freedom," said British pilot Bertram (Jimmy) James of his exploits as a prisoner of war and a perennially frustrated escape artist. "That wasn't quite the case." After taking part in the most famous attempt of World WarII--the mass exit from Poland's Stalag Luft III, depicted in the 1963 film The Great Escape-- James survived a labor camp and went on to work in Britain's diplomatic service. James...
Journalistic freedom and onslaught of student start-ups aside, the media campaign for Diamond’s models leaves much to be desired. The mass e-mail calling for nude photos from “hot” undergraduate women seemed offensive to many. Residential houses should not be places where undergraduates feel objectified. The magazine’s website—although still under construction—does not try to obscure the pornographic nature of the magazine’s aims. Content was described as a mixture of “entertaining, interesting and practical articles?...
...medical student, and Salah, the professor, to stage a small protest during an official visit to the U.S. by the unnamed Egyptian President. Having been selected to give a short speech welcoming the President to Chicago, Salah intends to read a statement defending the right of Egyptians to freedom and democracy. But he chickens out, and later commits suicide. The scene is a disappointment to some Al Aswany fans, many of whom see his characters as real people harboring the hopes and frustrations of most Egyptians. Nonetheless, Chicago ends up as a powerful indictment of dictatorship and its corrosive effect...
...some point, though, caution stops and demonization begins. In 2006, when the Iranian nuclear myth was still gospel in Washington, Congress shuffled through the ‘Iran Freedom Support Act’ in response, legislation that permitted the exercise of sanctions by the White House “to support a transition to democracy in Iran.” The notion of these sanctions as in the service of freedom is not just an example of Ministry-of-Love levels of doublespeak, but plainly disingenuous: even under Iran’s potent religious leadership, democratic processes function there relatively...