Word: radix
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...dabbed tears as states began coming in for Obama. She and husband Manuel came to the U.S. in 1960 as staunch Republicans, but they were convinced by their children to vote Democratic. "They showed me how much he cared about the underprivileged and middle-class," she says. Nearby, Marlise Radix, an Irish immigrant who, with her family, became a citizen to vote for Obama, took photos of chanting voters while children threw red and blue balloons to one another below the cheering crowd. Outside the ballroom, fans called friends on cell phones: "We won Virginia - can you believe...
...wringing anything new or interesting out of these hoary maxims. Not Lewis H. Lapham, the editor of Harper's magazine and a regular contributor to it as well, whose Money and Class in America amusingly roams over the glitzy terrain of contemporary consumerism. Lapham of course rephrases old adages. Radix malorum est cupiditas becomes "It isn't the money itself that causes the trouble, but rather the use of money as votive ritual and pagan ornament." Wealth's inability to provide lasting cheer is limned anew: "Believing that they can buy the future and make time stand still, the faithful...
Almost completely ignored by voters was the Maurice Bishop Patriotic Movement, the remnant of the revolutionary New Jewel Movement, which seized power from Gairy in 1979. The M.B.P.M., headed by former Industrial Development Minister Kendrick Radix, was named after Maurice Bishop, the charismatic New Jewel founder who was assassinated by a hard-line faction of his leftist party six days before U.S. troops arrived on Grenada. The trial of 19 former New Jewel members for the murder of Bishop, 39, and ten of his followers was stalled last week by procedural wrangling...
...Minister Maurice Bishop. These detained Grenadians, questioned on their anti-Western beliefs and political activities, are kept in isolation cells under heavy guard. Relying on local denunciations and lists of former government workers, U.S. troops are attempting to "neutralize" subversive elements before foreign soldiers leave the island. Charged Kendrick Radix, the Attorney General in the Bishop government. "This isn't a legal proceeding. This is a witchhunt...
...least one case, the U.S. forces claimed the solitary confinement was to protect a prisoner from fellow detainees: former Grenadian Justice Minister Kendrick Radix spent a night in one of the plywood boxes as prisoner No. 1,120. "The rain came in the night and I was drenched," complained the Irish-educated lawyer, still indignant. "I need a vacation." Indeed, in the span of three three weeks, Radix, 41, has been imprisoned twice-first by the ad hoc Revolutionary Military Council (R.M.C.), the junta that overthrew and killed Prime Minister Maurice Bishop, then (for "spreading bad will among the people...