Word: isolationism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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PNOMH PENH: As gunfire echoed through the streets of the capital, Cambodia began to descend once more into the isolated international pariah state it had been under the Khmer Rouge. Three days after Second Prime Minister Hun Sen took over in a bloody coup, troops went door-to-door through...
A first-timer on the campaign trail, Lewis had two prescient impulses. The first was to chuck the tags of the marked-for-isolation press. Using his anonymity, he eavesdrops on Al D'Amato in the bathroom (guess who doesn't wash his hands) and rummages through Bill Clinton's...
In Los Angeles, we commute alone, huddling over our steering wheels in our haste to get from one spot to another. Interaction occurs when one or our neighbors drives with us in the express carpool lane, and personal expression is limited to the middle-finger salute. Isolation reigns as our...
This University applies rigorous intellectual standards in admitting students, then it grinds them into servants of the governmental and business elites controlling American society, democracy and capitalism. Its prevailing emotional standard, however, is simply to ensure that everyone is capable of making it alone. It's always been considered too...
Unfortunately, it seems too easy to graduate from Harvard and insulate yourself among like-minded bourgeois Ivy-leaguers. This form of social isolation can easily foster warped perspectives, such as the beliefs that inhabitants of the inner-cities lack a work ethic, that the homeless are to be feared or...