Word: lorded
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What they feared was pretty much exactly what followed: the exposing of personal foibles for public inspection. Lord Byron became a celebrity because of his poetry and a reprobate and rogue thanks to allegations about his sexual relations with his half sister. Charles Dickens tried to disguise his relationship with the young actress Ellen Ternan, all for naught, since suspicions about its true nature flourished then and ever since. Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians wickedly and fastidiously punctured an era of hypocrisy, and the writings of Sigmund Freud unleashed the psychological deluge...
Last week Lord Hartley Shawcross, who was the chief British prosecutor at the Nazi war crimes trials at Nuremberg, warned that "international law will be a dead letter unless we give criminal jurisdiction to the International Court of Justice and set up a mechanism for enforcing its judgments." The use of force against monster regimes will be easier to justify if sanctioned and undertaken by a multilateral body, presumably the U.N. As Desert Storm showed, the U.S. is as well suited to the role of a sheriff leading a posse as to that of the Lone Ranger...
...think that is a poor reflection of Carter: Abedi, a charismatic personality, has given millions each year to charities and has wooed numerous world leaders attracted to his Third World Foundation. Britain's Lord Callaghan, a former Prime Minister, was a paid economic adviser to B.C.C.I., and Pakistani President Zia was a staunch supporter. While Indira Gandhi was India's Prime Minister, she presented a prize established by B.C.C.I. "When I met him 20 years ago," says a close associate of Abedi's, "I looked into his eyes and saw God and the devil residing in perfect harmony...
Shootings and rioting arrived with the Friday release of the Warner Bros. film, based on the life of Harlem drug lord Nickie Barnes. A man was killed in New York and disturbances erupted in Chicago, New Jersey, Nevada and Los Angeles...
...19th century, isms mattered little; national purposes varied from case to case, region to region, year to year. Lord Palmerston summed it up in 1848: "We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and these interests it is our duty to follow." Great powers had some goals in common, others in conflict, and they adjusted the mix of cooperation and competition in their dealings accordingly...