Word: separatist
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...parade in Colombo, the 68-year-old President of low-caste birth was blown to bits by a suicidal assassin laden with explosives. At least 15 bystanders were also killed in this latest outbreak of political violence that has convulsed India's once placid offshore neighbor with insurgency and separatist warfare over the past decade. In Sri Lanka, curses today have a way of coming home...
...multicultural center does strike many as a divisive, separatist move. The 1982 Gomes Report rejected the proposal for a Third World Center and suggested that it would polarize the campus. The solution proposed was the Harvard Foundation--and we all know how wonderfully non-polarizing and non-divisive it has been...
...People would think it was a separatist tendency, and then it would be counterproductive to promoting race relations, but I don't think that's the case," he says. "I don't think a strong group definition restricts interactions in race relations, but I think that's the opinion people often hold...
...attack two weeks earlier on New York City's World Trade Center, which the first Bombay bombing appeared to resemble, at first no person or group claimed responsibility. Speculation as to the bombers focused on, among others, separatist groups backed by Pakistan and Hindu and Muslim militants in the wake of sectarian rioting in Bombay last December and January that claimed 900 lives. By Saturday police were questioning several suspects, but no arrests had been made...
...course, if there were to be enough Latinos in one house to fill a table, people would be alarmed. We would be seen as separatist for wanting to associate with people who make us comfortable. We would be penalized for sitting with people who understand where we come from and, most importantly, who do not question our ability. The Black students are already accused of this. It's always the Black tables that are noticed, not the jock table, not the preppy table. Perhaps they're a more conspicuous group. Or maybe it's because they're louder in their...