Word: third world
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Granted, radical Third World types have an infuriating tendency to condemn Israel for abuses that pale before those committed in Arab states and most of the nations on Earth, for that matter. But that's no reason to tar those who believe that Israel should be held to a higher standard (it being completely dependent on the U.S. for its survival and all) with the brush of anti-Semitism...
Dersh wants to have his challah and eat it too: He wants Israel (and Jewry) to be respected for their moral tradition (as they should be), but he also wants to judge Israel's actions by the standards of the Third World, if need be, not by the standards of the Jewish tradition...
...obvious ("Avoid statements like 'The food looks pathetic,' " urges a guidebook) to the arcane (a third of the predinner cocktail hour is devoted to group instruction in the body language of handshaking and other niceties). The three-hour banquet is awesomely all inclusive: "Soup, salad, what do you do with this fork, coffee, napkins, excusing yourself, dessert, any final questions and then we break it up," says Jane McGrath, DePaul's career-planning and placement director. Thus, as DePaul students enter the backstabbing world of business, at least they will know on which side of the plate they can find...
...house in which Indira Gandhi had served her father as hostess during the early years of independence. It was an era in which Rajiv and his younger brother Sanjay saw most of the world's major political figures trip through: Presidents and kings, commissars and emerging Third World statesmen. One anecdote relates that the young Dalai Lama and the Panchen Lama were missing at the house during a visit. The spiritual leaders of Tibetans were found in the backyard playing around a wigwam with the Gandhi boys...
...nuclear waste, they're burning fossil fuels, contributing to acid rain, urban smog and the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. In that regard, American utilities have a lot to answer for. The U.S., with 5% of the world's population, produces a quarter of the global output of carbon dioxide, the major greenhouse gas, of which fully one-third comes directly from the smokestacks of the companies that supply Americans with their heat and electric power...