Word: suppresser
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...sharing intelligence as never before and even conducting joint operations against the group. Israeli authorities had always doubted that Yasser Arafat, now the head of the Palestinian Authority that governs the self-rule enclaves in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank town of Jericho, was really willing to suppress the militants, but his actions this year have tended to resolve those doubts...
...snitches, fast became outcasts. Klipfel found a black plastic rat in her office. Pictures of her children were knocked off her desk repeatedly. In a lawsuit they filed in Chicago federal court, Klipfel and Casali allege that ATF conducted a "deliberate and strenuous" campaign of retribution meant to suppress further disclosures of misconduct. Says Sanders: "Retaliation is so obvious...
There is something disturbingly American about these irregular cadres who drill endlessly in preparation for Washington's attempt to suppress our liberty...
Interspersed with these vignettes of urban romance are a few stories that provide a psychological history for Beller's characters. These pieces trace the young adulthood of Alex Fader, a fatherless only child who tries hard to suppress his love for an often elusive mother. Ultimately, though, Alex forges an enviable closeness with her, and that leaves the reader with hope for all the floundering, grownup versions of him in this spirited collection...
...might not be a bad idea, says Carlin Meyer, a professor at New York Law School whose Georgetown essay takes a far less apocalyptic view than MacKinnon's. She argues that if you don't like the images of sex the pornographers offer, the appropriate response is not to suppress them but to overwhelm them with healthier, more realistic ones. Sex on the Internet, she maintains, might actually be good for young people. "[Cyberspace] is a safe space in which to explore the forbidden and the taboo," she writes. "It offers the possibility for genuine, unembarrassed conversations about accurate...