Word: protectorate
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...fire, once lighted, has a life of its own. So does rhetoric that inflames people and encourages hate. It is curious that candidate Buchanan, protector of the family, acts like a man who is trying to burn down the house...
...delighted to see the article on the Christian men's movement Promise Keepers [RELIGION, Nov. 6]. Though the emphasis on religion exists, the true focus of the movement is men. Not only does the Promise Keepers program reassure men of their natural role as leader, provider and protector of their home, family, community and nation, but it also reassures their wives, mothers, sisters and children of their safety and security for the future. Our nation's leaders have lost their focus. Hollywood, the media and the music industry are not interested in portraying the good, wholesome and positive...
...stretches credulity to believe that a man whose most recent accomplishment was helping to wreck the nation's most important civil rights organization is capable of leading a campaign that he claims will "stop the senseless self-destruction within the black community." Only last year, this self-appointed protector of "our black children, our families and our communities" was fired from his job as executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for the unauthorized spending of $332,400 in organizational funds to settle a sexual-harassment claim. Indeed, all the N.A.A.C.P. has to show...
Despite the focus on peace, the war in Bosnia has pulled in a new belligerent: NATO. As the official protector of the four remaining U.N.-declared safe areas, NATO retaliated with air power last month after a Serb mortar shell killed 43 people in Sarajevo. On Aug. 30, the alliance launched heavy attacks on Serb military storage areas, ammunition plants, missile sites and radar and communications centers around Sarajevo, the Serbs' capital of Pale and other parts of Bosnia. NATO then warned Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic that he had to pull his heavy weapons back from the city...
...must be deleted before she can delete it. "There are some logical jump cuts in 'The Net's' narrative," saysTIME's Richard Schickel. But director Irwin Winkler has a confident sense of pacing and scale and, in Bullock, "an actress whose gumption and vulnerability can penetrate any plastic pocket protector and jump-start the most shriveled hacker's heart beneath...