Word: paybacks
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Harvard’s acquisition of Nowak amounts to some measure of payback after Princeton lured two star Afro-American studies scholars—Cornel R. West ’74 and K. Anthony Appiah—away from Cambridge last year...
...again shattered in the midst of a fragile attempt to rebuild after religious pogroms in March killed thousands in Gujarat. The temple gunmen were carrying leaflets in Urdu claiming membership in an unknown militant group calling itself Tehreek-e-Quasas, "Movement for Revenge," and saying that the attack was payback for the anti-Muslim killings in the spring. Indian leaders know well that in the complex physics of South Asian politics, the payback for this payback?another reprisal riot in Gujarat?would have jeopardized the Kashmiri election process, perhaps India's last chance to validate its rule over the region...
...independents, centrist McBride spooks the Bush campaign far more than liberal Reno. If the 57-year-old decorated Vietnam veteran and fiscal conservative could indeed upset Bush--and the odds are still long, with polls showing a 51%-to-37% Bush lead--it would be triple revenge for Democrats: payback for the disputed 2000 presidential outcome, a significant midterm body blow to the White House and, most important, a Jeb-less Florida in 2004. As a result, both national parties may pour record millions into the state during the next seven weeks...
...like a cancer throughout the Middle East and back into its ancient home in Europe. Educated men and women who regularly find the slightest fault in democratic Western societies vie with one another to provide glib, desperate rationalizations for the murderers of 9/11: arrogant American global power somehow deserved payback, and those who deliberately kill civilians are allegedly legitimate combatants with worthy grievances...
Here are two folks who spent eight years being attacked by midgets and now have fat contracts to write memoirs in which they could pound on their enemies and throw gravel at them, and will they? Will it be Payback Time? No, it will not be. They will say that those eight years of persecution only deepened their faith and drew them closer as a couple and made them realize how terribly lucky they really...