Word: traitorous
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...both cases, old spyhands see instances--exacerbated by post-cold war ambivalence--where spies turned traitor not out of ideological passion for the other side--what "other" side?--but from devotion to the ultimate free-market incentive, cash. To Nicholson's stunned family, who spoke to Time last week, that image didn't square with the idealistic, spiritual man and devoted father they knew. "Jim's whole life has been a commitment to the U.S. government and to his job," said his father Marvin, a retired Air Force master sergeant living near Eugene, Oregon. "Greed?" asked brother Robert. "That...
...same time, Kingston has been labeled a radical feminist, a fake and a traitor to her Chinese heritage. But the popularity of her books is incontestable. These antinostalgic nonfiction memoirs recount the sometimes fantastical tales of her childhood. Many times, her own life-stories are intertwined with myth and story-telling, as if Kingston herself had a hard time distinguishing between the two. This melding of fact and fiction has brought criticism from some quarters, and praise from others...
...offensive destroyed any current hope of reuniting the two violently feuding factions. Talabani, who had accepted help from Iran, has openly called his K.D.P. counterpart, Massoud Barzani, "a traitor" for opening the door to Iraq. In an exclusive interview with Time, Barzani, who has always believed in a federal union with Iraq, cited the Iranian involvement. "All we have done is to defend ourselves against the foreign threat of invasion." Speaking at the resort of Asalahuddin, 18 miles north of Erbil, he said, "We are still willing to cooperate with America if it is really serious." He does not rule...
...helped engineer the dramatic gallop to the political center that revived Clinton's presidency and because his lack of ideological conviction mirrors the same trait critics see in Clinton. Morris, 48, has a history of working for both Democrats and Republicans--a career strategy that has made him a traitor in the eyes of people in both parties. He could work simultaneously for Jesse Helms and Mother Teresa and see no inherent contradiction. (Helms, in fact, has been a Morris client; the Saint of Calcutta hasn't called him as yet.) What these critics overlook, says Henry Sheinkopf, a consultant...
About 1,500 citizens pack the Palace of Culture and Art to hear the man so many love to hate. "I have no text," Gorbachev says. "Ask your questions." Instantly, a Russian air force general is shouting: "You bastard! You traitor! You destroyed the motherland. How dare you face the people...