Word: patriotism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Even the proudest patriot will admit that India's boast of being a bastion of live-and-let-live harmony has always been something of a lie. Muslim frustration at discrimination and Hindu resentment of governmental assistance to minorities explode every few years in violence. But as the March riots raged on for weeks in Gujarat, they provoked particular alarm. While human-rights groups demanded Modi be tried for genocide, Hindu political parties, cultural groups and hordes of street demonstrators celebrated him as India's great defender. From a political nobody, Modi was catapulted into the international limelight...
...presidential elections scheduled for Dec. 8. He won't win, but the result could provide an unexpected pulpit for his hardline views. "He's my heart and soul," explains Ilinka Tasic, 50, kissing Seselj's silver-haired likeness at a vegetable market overlooking the Danube. "He is a true patriot." Authoritarian politics still has an audience in Serbia. But Seselj's re-emergence reflects a more general frustration among Serbian voters with their democratically elected leadership, which, two years after Milosevic's ouster, has yet to produce the kind of economic results that many Serbs had hoped for. Seselj insists...
Last year, Harvard (1-0) dropped a tight defensive battle to the Crusaders (1-1), losing 65-57. Holy Cross went on to win the Patriot League and took top-seeded Kansas to the wire in the NCAA Tournament...
...director Phillip Noyce has made two new films--The Quiet American from Graham Greene's 1955 novel and Rabbit-Proof Fence--that dramatize these roiling issues. Both films are cast as adventures; Noyce, who directed the Tom Clancy thrillers Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger, is a master at encasing political messages in action and passion. The result is a pair of films that are both pointed and poignant...
...Crimson returns to the hardwood tomorrow night against defending Patriot League champion Holy Cross...