Word: nadir
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...year-old with a degree in religion is best friends with Ghotair, who can barely write her own name. They are both devout Muslims born in the same city. But when these new friends meet, two worlds collide: the old life of an Afghan woman, which reached a nadir under the Taliban, and a new kind of existence that's mightily struggling to be born. And while the faltering government in Kabul has made big promises to liberate Afghanistan's women, this struggle mostly occurs behind the closed doors of houses like Ghotair...
...anger many area politicians expressed last week is reminiscent of the what is widely considered the nadir of Harvard’s relationship with Boston—the imbroglio surrounding Harvard’s 1997 announcement that it had secretly purchased nearly 50 acres of Boston land...
...policy because he refused to follow the old Clinton doctrine that had made Arafat the center of the universe (he was invited to the Clinton White House more than any other leader on the planet) and made talking an end in itself--even as the blood flowed. The nadir of this obsession with "engagement" was reached the day Madeleine Albright ran through the courtyard of a Paris chateau begging Arafat to return to a negotiation he had just walked...
...film the Windsors "at home" - who can ever forget their picnic on a grouse moor? - they have thought they could control the terms on which they revealed themselves, and hence shape a "modern" relationship between sovereign and people. It's been a disastrous policy, one that hit its nadir (for now) with suspicions that the Queen intervened to stop the trial of Diana's butler, Paul Burrell, because of royal fears that Burrell might tell stories about wrongdoing inside the Palace. After the trial had ended, of course, those stories did emerge - filling the tabloids with allegations of homosexual rape...
...wave of support for old-fashioned Minnesotan liberalism. Wellstone had just started pulling away in the polls, and Democrats can only hope that absence makes the votes grow fonder. When John F. Kennedy ’40 was shot in 1963, his public approval ratings skyrocketed from the nadir of his presidency. In an eerily similar chain of events, Mel Carnahan was killed in a plane crash within days of Missouri’s 2001 senatorial election, and his wife was able to seize the reins and defeat John Ashcroft. Perhaps history will again repeat itself...