Word: reproaching
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...eyes of an orphan too proud to plead, too desperate to reproach. She is poor, female and 12, and in mid-'90s Afghanistan, with the Taliban thug clerics in power, that means no schooling, employment or respect. Then her mother has an idea. Cut the girl's hair, dress her in robes and give her a boy's name--Osama--so she can find work as a "boy" and support the tattered family...
...seize this opportunity to take a firm stance against sexual assault as well as take a serious look at ways to improve acceptance of women on campus. Administrators should be encouraging victims of assault to come forward, rather than encouraging silence in an effort to shield the Academy from reproach or embarrassment. Investigations of assaults must be thorough; accountability and harsh discipline must be at the helm of their policy; and guilty students should be removed from the Academy. Furthermore, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld should take a stand now against sexual assault in the armed forces. The report?...
...steps onto a bus. When it stops seconds later and backs up to let him off for the next take, he stomps his foot in bewildered frustration. "It only took me four hours to get here from Thimpu," he says to Khyentse Norbu with a slight hint of reproach. "I can't figure out why it's taking me so many days to get back." The director pats him softly on the back. "I don't know what to say to him anymore," he confides. "He's like Chauncey Gardner, the Peter Sellers character in Being There." Later that night...
...Primitive and unpredictable, Kamchatka might not be for the fainthearted. But for extravagant, dazzling scenery, it is unparalleled. "People come here and reproach us," Kruglyakov of Lost World says. "They ask, 'How is it that you have all this beauty and you haven't told anyone?'" Kamchatka, wild as it remains, is slowly opening to the world...
...Many East Timorese are now calling for Gusmao to play a bigger part in government beyond his largely ceremonial role as President. At the very least, his character is above reproach. A realist, Gusmao also recognized earlier than most that independence would be no picnic. During the May celebrations, he warned people not to get carried away, telling them patience would be needed. If last week's unrest is any indicator, East Timorese are already running...