Word: pariahize
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...endowment funds, or how it approaches emerging political and security risk categories. Harvard is part of an institutional investor community that exacerbates human rights abuses in Sudan and sustains terrorist-sponsoring states by investing in PetroChina, Sinopec, and dozens of other companies active in the world’s pariah states. According to the Center for Security Policy’s Divest Sudan initiative, 87 U.S. public pension funds have invested more than $90 billion dollars in 83 public companies that maintain active business projects in Sudan...
Although his opinions have made Bloom, in his words, “the pariah of [his] profession for the last thirty years,” he sticks by his beliefs. He maintains that using gender, race, or any other personal characteristics of authors in evaluating the artistic merit or validity of their work is “a blasphemy against the arts…a horrible absurdity...
...once again escaped the noose, fleeing into a new exile in far-off Tunis in 1982 after Ariel Sharon's army had vanquished his fighters. Arafat seemed irretrievably doomed in 1991 when his disastrous miscalculation of supporting Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait saw the PLO reduced to pariah status in almost every Arab capital. But within two years, he popped up on the White House lawn shaking hands with Yitzhak Rabin under the matrimonial smile of President Bill Clinton. It's not hard to see how his improbable political recoveries have made Arafat a talisman of resilience...
Before you label me a social accident or some type of pariah, hold your hypocrisy in check. The majority of Harvard students engage in some form of communication-resistant behavior via technology at least some of the time. Certainly you have put up your AIM away message the moment one of your best friends signs on. Certainly you’ve delayed replying to that lunch invitation sent by e-mail until lunch has already passed. And certainly you have turned your cell phone off after seeing “Mom and Dad” pop up in the caller...
...Karma" takes place in 8th century Japan. It begins cruelly as the newborn Gao tumbles down a rock face when his father slips while on the way to pay homage to the mountain spirit. Fifteen years later, the one-armed, one-eyed Gao has become the village pariah. When their scorn becomes more than he can bear he unleashes a savagely violent revenge that begins his days as a hunted, merciless bandit. And yet, in a moment that I missed on the first read, during a breathless chase scene, he puts a ladybug out of harm's way. During...