Word: pariahize
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...Saddam may be a pariah in the West, but in Baghdad he is the father of the nation, or so the cult of Saddam would have it. His image is everywhere, in the huge bronze statues at traffic circles, in the mural-sized portraits emblazoned on government buildings and even in music videos shown on Iraqi TV that feature Saddam repeatedly firing off his rifle...
...Supposedly one film provoked the Cat III rating: the Mainland-shot ?Squadron 731,? a/k/a ?Man Behind the Sun.? In this 1988 mondo-docudrama from Taiwanese director Mou Tunfei (T.R. Mous), Japanese scientists experiment sadistically on animals and humans. What gave the picture pariah status was its four-minute sequence of a live cat being thrown to and devoured by a swarm of rats. No stunt doubles were used in the making of this feline Chinese torture-chamber story. Even for a culture whose cuisine embraces dog, monkey and ants, and whose calendar pays homage to the rat every 12 years...
...world's military and economic superpower. One year on, the war has indeed turned out to be a global conflict. But in Jakarta, local politics may outweigh geopolitics as President Megawati Sukarnoputri's administration last week wrestled over whether to cooperate with the U.S., or risk being labeled a pariah state in this new, antiterror world order...
...asked about Taiwan, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz says the U.S. will "strongly oppose any attempt to settle that issue by force." As for Beijing, it genuinely doesn't want to fight over Taiwan. Failure to win might bring down the Communist Party, and success would leave China a pariah...
...world. TIME: What would it mean for Israel or other neighbors of Iraq if Saddam did acquire nuclear weapons? Ritter: If Iraq today seeks to acquire any prohibited weaponry, then clearly we must presume ill intent on the part of Iraq. We must treat Saddam Hussein as a pariah leader and we must treat Iraq as a rogue nation, and they must be dealt with harshly, up to and including military force that leads to regime removal. If Iraq acquired a nuclear weapon today, it would be a huge risk to Israel, to all its neighbors and to the entire...