Word: ism
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...History: Yamakawa Shuppan, which publishes history textbooks used in nearly half of Japan's high schools, airbrushed its account of the casualties inflicted during the 1937 Nanjing Massacre by deleting the words "tens of thousands to 400,000" and leaving "many Chinese"; the Ministry of Education approved the revision(ism...
...modern academic ombuds position had origins during student radical- ism of the 1960s, he said. And at many schools, conflicts involving students remain a primary focus...
...found myself on the phone with people from the Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge (DFMC), a group of about 400 people who run Boston every year and collect pledges for a research program at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. The combination of blind anger, frustration and college can-do-it-ism convinced me that I could finally do something about this disease that kept invading people’s lives...
...supervillainy his hometown has suffered. Unlike WW II comics' patriotism, Spider-Man's nods to the current war era are more elliptical. The World Trade Center towers were excised from one scene; New Yorkers refusing to be terrorized by the Green Goblin sound a note of Let's-Roll-ism. (The American flag filling the screen in the final moments, on the other hand, is as subtle as a black-widow bite.) It might be off-putting, seeing a superhero saving New York, reminding us that there was no one to catch those airliners in his supertensile webbing last year...
...handful of ordinary corruption cases have served as symbolic reminders that she stands for-or used to, anyway-reform and clean governance, long the rallying cry for populist Indonesian politicians. The defendants themselves seem to have been chosen as much for what they represent-Tommy Suharto=Suharto-ism, House Speaker Akbar= Corruption-as for the real charges against them. Megawati had trumpeted the opening of the trials to reavow her administration's commitment to those noble causes. "Some people in our community have lost their pride and have no shame," she told her party supporters last month in Makassar. "They...