Word: martyrdoms
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...Martyrdom is hard to come across in a free society: one might find lots of lawyers, but not that many martyrs. Ken Saro-Wiwa, a prominent Nigerian author, struggled against an abusive system of laws and paid with his life for his resistance. He recognized that the presence of the Royal Dutch/Shell Conglomerate in his homeland, the Ogoni province of Nigeria, was leaving his people economically strangulated and politically marginalized...
...year since Columbine has been one of ferment among youthful Evangelicals. Shaken yet inspired by what they see as the martyrdom of Christian students--and encouraged by a decade-old Supreme Court decision affirming student-led, after-school Christian clubs--they have shown a new assertiveness. The movement's political arm, meanwhile, insists that reinstatement of adult-led class prayer is the best way to prevent new carnage...
Government lawyers believe the family got the outcome it wanted, other than the boy himself: a televised martyrdom that would allow them to hold their heads up forever in Little Havana. How else to explain, they ask, the family's curious refusal to travel to Washington for the week-long cooling-off period? All night long, the family said it didn't want to fly; it preferred to drive. When Podhurst told Reno, at 4 a.m. on Saturday, that he couldn't get the family to make up its mind about leaving town, Reno called it a "deal breaker...
...anger/ardor/faith all mingled - a sort of religio-political hysteria, posters held up like icons, T-shirts of the boy worn like scapulars: The child-cult of the Boy on the Dolphin and of his mother, the Drowned Madonna. Visions of Freedom for the boy, or of honorable Martyrdom earned in saving him from Going Back. The dream looked something like the early scenes of "La Dolce Vita...
Indeed, even Buchanan's legendary oratorical skills (admittedly superior to that of his questioners) could not completely hide his dark side at the ARCO Forum on Thursday. Buchanan stood squarely behind his remarks in praise of Hitler, his crack that Holocaust survivors have "group fantasies of martyrdom" and his support of Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk. As Neal Sher, the former director of the Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations said, "Buchanan went to bat for every Nazi war criminal in America...