Word: pariah
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...multilateral approach to disarming Saddam Hussein. There are two kinds of people who walk alone against the tide of majority opinion. One is brave and has enormous integrity. The other is mad and walks into disaster. Bush, I fear, is the latter kind. He has made our nation a pariah. KAREN SILVER New York City...
...stemming from last year's suicide bomb attack on a Mombasa tourist hotel, and warnings of possible further terrorist actions. And, up to opening day, the English and Australian teams were still discussing the possibility of refusing to play in Zimbabwe, where President Robert Mugabe has become an international pariah because of his repressive regime. Government officials protest that Britain has blown everything out of proportion. "Cricket is a game. Every game, every sport, should be divorced from politics," says Thompson Tsodzo, permanent secretary at the Zimbabwe Ministry of Education, Sport and Culture. "People are coming to play a game...
...Heinz Ribbeck, 53, a sales manager at the machinery company that made the drill. The convictions embarrass Germany, which has tried to clean up its act following revelations in the 1980s and early 1990s that German firms were major providers of weapons-making equipment to Iraq, Libya and other pariah states. But prosecutors say Schompeter easily found ways around the tougher export restrictions. The initial sale was to a German-based trading company, so as to circumvent the manufacturer's internal controls, and the drill was then exported to Jordan with a dubious end-user certificate before ending...
...cricket fans, it's a delicious irony that South Africa is trying to be the voice of reason in the sport's latest political showdown. Until little over a decade ago, the country was cricket's pariah, barred from international competition for refusing to play against nonwhite teams. Now, as another African nation - Zimbabwe - faces isolation ahead of cricket's quadrennial World Cup, South Africa is calling for politics to be kept out of the sport. A new boycott, says Ali Bacher, captain of the South African team during the wilderness years, "would not just...
...Everyone who supports Israel is a Zionist.” This would be a meaningless statement, rather like saying “You are either a carnivore or a vegetarian. Everyone who eats meat is a carnivore,” were it not that for Paulin, Israel is a pariah state and any support for it a crime. In response to this kind of extremism, most Jews, regardless of their views on any peace plan, would respond by asking: with friends like this, who needs enemies...