Word: reproachers
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...success, and it is unlikely to be put at risk by prioritizing political concerns. And, of course, the bedrock of China's foreign policy has always been non-interference in the internal affairs of other nations - a principle that protects China's own treatment of its citizens from international reproach...
...Disgusted by the country's traditional political class, voters in 2002 turned in droves to the Workers Party, and installed the socialist former blue-collar worker Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as president. But last year, Lula's reputation as a politician above reproach was shattered when investigators found that his government had handed out envelopes stuffed with cash to anyone who would support it in Congress. When it was revealed last month that scores of the country's deputies were skimming money off government contracts to purchase ambulances, it was hard for the citizenry to work up anything more...
...Most of this awkward time she has been quiet, with a dull gaze that harbors reproach, for him or herself or both. At one point she touches her dark shirt to brush off something we can't quite see - is it her chagrin, her defeat, the evidence of her lover's passion? Then, Jean plays the gentleman and makes a fatal mistake. He says, "I forgive you." And she explodes in a derisive giggle. Even more than the insult, he senses the threat. "Then this letter is not the worst of it?" he asks, and she replies, like a death...
...vaguely pathological sexual fantasy.” Suffice it to say the video’s message, and that of the party generally, was that participating women should bring scant clothes and few inhibitions.And one cannot help but wonder whether there were any private words of reproach that passed between TBTN organizers and their Owl Club co-sponsors. Because publicly, TBTN organizers were inauspiciously mum. One might have expected a disavowal, a roundtable, even a protest.That is, one might expect those reactions if one was altogether unacquainted with the heritage of TBTN, whose bottom line is not just about stopping...
While the military's reproach is the most remarkable, it follows some public criticism of Rumsfeld from the civilian side of the Administration that seems to signal he is no longer feared. Last month, Condoleezza Rice acknowledged "tactical errors, thousands of them" in the conduct of the war. That remark, which Rice later characterized as a figure of speech, led Rumsfeld to respond, "I don't know what she was talking about, to be perfectly honest." And though he bears some responsibility for overstating the case for war before the invasion, Powell took aim at his old rival Rumsfeld...