Word: leftist
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...errors and to the individuals whose reputations were affected by them." Blair quickly accepted the apology and said he planned to "move on." But spontaneous walkouts of BBC staff chanting "We Want Greg" - and unexpected support for him from Conservatives who normally denounce the BBC as a leftist hotbed - reflected widespread fears that the government will use Hutton to hobble the BBC's independence. It has ample opportunity: the BBC's charter is due for a government review that will determine its organization and funding for another 10 years...
...first such incident - provoked shock, outrage and a public debate on violence and security in schools. The suspected killer, a 17-year-old boy, fled the scene but later gave himself up to the police. Caught on the Run EGYPT Police arrested two members of Italy 's ultra-leftist Red Brigades group convicted in absentia of terrorist activities by Italian courts. One of the two, Rita Algranati, was sentenced to life in prison for her role in the 1978 kidnapping and murder of two-time Prime Minister Aldo Moro. In the Crosshairs MIDDLE EAST Israel sealed off the Gaza Strip...
...towers of the François Mitterrand Library (1995) - a prestige project for which height restrictions didn't apply. There's a certain degree of irony in the fact that the proposal to raise the roofs of Paris comes not from greedy developers, but from the first leftist mayor Paris has had since the commune of 1871. A Socialist but no ideologue, Delanoë has appealed to the so-called Bobo set - the "bourgeois bohemians" - by promoting bicycles and buses, installing a sandy beach along the Seine in the summer and promising a more approachable and responsible city administration...
...local Labor Party politician at that, to touch a nerve among the Israeli public. Even right-wing newspapers ran editorials condemning the shooting. Parliamentarians called an emergency debate and the army instituted two separate inquiries. "The whole chain of command should go to jail," says Avshalom Vilan, a leftist lawmaker and friend of the Naamati family. "We need a trial so people will understand this is a thing that the state can't accept." Naamati knew the rules of engagement: his three years of military service ended just a month before the shooting. As he stood at the fence...
...frays the delicate web of racial, economic and family relations. Caroline wrestles with whether to take the money; Noah goads her with ever larger amounts. Meanwhile, we glimpse Caroline's home life (she's a single mother with four kids) and Noah's extended family, including Rose's radical-leftist father. Tesori's eclectic score, which mixes blues, gospel and '60s pop with classical and art-song filigree, can rouse, amuse or establish a mood with equal ease, ennobling lines that could sound clunky if spoken: "Gonna pass me a law," sings Caroline, "no woman...