Word: phrase
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This was one of the many gatherings held around the world last week to commemorate the anniversary of the genocide. Since then, we've seen war crimes tribunals emerge, world leaders (almost) apologize for their inaction, refugee surges that have turned the phrase "mass exodus" into a shopworn cliche, and human suffering on a scale that seems to defy explanation or understanding. We've also seen our government make at least one small attempt to salvage a semblance of humanity in international affairs--the appointment of a special ambassador, David Scheffer, to deal with war crimes issues...
McCain, a former Navy pilot, made the phrase a mantra during his 5 1/2 years as a POW in Hanoi. Prisoners would find reasons for hope or despair in the smallest things, leading to painful emotional swings. McCain kept his head by controlling his emotions and counseled his fellow captives to do likewise...
TIME: In Rwanda you used the loaded phrase "never again" to promise that the U.S. would never be shy in the face of evidence about genocide. Is that just rhetoric, or are you developing a new U.S. policy to intervene for humanitarian reasons when genocide occurs somewhere...
...AMERICAN CENTURY That's what TIME's founder Henry Luce called it in a 1941 essay. He was using the phrase to exhort his compatriots to prepare for war, to engage in the struggle for freedom. They did, yet again. And they won. Some countries base their foreign policy on realism or its Prussian-accented cousin, realpolitik: a cold and careful calculation of strategic interests. America is unique in that it is equally motivated by idealism. Whether it is the fight against fascism or communism, or even misconceived interventions like Vietnam, America's mission is to further not only...
...this injustice that inspired Sanger to defy church and state. In a series of articles called "What Every Girl Should Know," then in her own newspaper The Woman Rebel and finally through neighborhood clinics that dispensed woman-controlled forms of birth control (a phrase she coined), Sanger put information and power into the hands of women...