Word: suppress
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...wrestling with its own rage, the fundamental message of “The Colored Museum” is that it is impossible to forget or suppress the past, no matter how traumatic. In order to live a meaningful life, the collective pain and anger inherent in the African-American experience must be embraced on some level. The result is a deeply mournful, but ultimately unifying celebration of pain...
...flat out fraud from beginning to end.” Finkelstein suggested that the work grossly distorts the facts and is heavily plagiarized from other sources.Unleashing a new accusation, he also claimed that Dershowitz recently flew to Israel to advise their government on how to suppress the free speech of Israeli pilots. The pilots, he said, would not engage in targeted killings. But Dershowitz, who did not attend the lecture, contacted The Crimson to state that there is no truth to the claim and to refute the statement. “I’d give...
...over a small but illegal U.S. bank account he maintained with his wife, he retreated to Labor's back bench until 1984, when the national unity government of Shimon Peres, his bitter rival within the Labor Party, turned to him as Defense Minister. Rabin seemed just the man to suppress the intifadeh -- the uprising against Israeli rule in the occupied territories that began in December 1987. Tough and unrelenting toward the protesters, Rabin is said to have told his troops to ''break their bones,'' ordering deportations and the destruction of Palestinian houses. Yet he was quicker than many to grasp...
...like the standoff of the superpowers. South Africa and the Middle East worked at a nastier level, closer to bone and gene and skin. They had, over the years, arrived at stalemate, a no-exit of chronic hatred. The struggles (whether to liberate one's own people, or to suppress the dangerous other tribe, or simply to survive in the moral airlessness) became prisons. The Men of the Year of 1993 -- Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat, F.W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela -- did nothing more and nothing less than find a way to break out. By tradition, TIME...
...which linked Vioxx with an elevated risk of heart attack, stroke, and death with long-term use. Since then, approximately 5,800 lawsuits have been filed against the company, with experts estimating legal costs of between $4 and $18 billion, according to the AP.Avorn says that Merck attempted to suppress the results of the Harvard study, which he co-authored with Solomon. Avorn, whose book, “Dangerous Medicines: The benefits, risks and costs of prescription drugs,” was recently published by Knopf, called Merck’s alleged actions “unethical...