Word: traitorously
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Even in the most cynical of times, "wicked" and "traitor" are rarely words that come to mind when describing a priest. But then, Father Nguyen Van Ly is no ordinary priest. The 53-year-old Catholic cleric has already spent nine years in prison, and last week he was in trouble again. Vietnamese authorities detained him in the central town of Hue and jailed two of his assistants. State-run newspapers obediently denounced him; one daily ran a photo of the priest holding a crucifix, under the headline: people's traitor unmasked...
...Calif.) said on the house floor, "Mr. Rich traded with Libya when we had the embargo, he traded with Iran when we had U.S. hostages being held captive, and he traded with Iraq during the 12 years when we had our conflict." The ultimate backscratcher set free the ultimate traitor...
...acquaintance. "He was a lot smarter than a lot of the people he worked for, and they really kicked him around." Or was there, as former New York field office chief James Kallstrom suggests, a serious psychological kink in Hanssen's brain? "For an FBI agent to be a traitor, to sell out his family, his country, his children, is unbelievable," says Kallstrom. "There's something really wrong in how he processes information that we didn't pick...
...with Arafat, pleading with him to consider a compromise granting Palestinians sovereignty over the Haram but giving Israelis sovereignty beneath it, where Jews believe the ruins of Solomon's temple lie. "Mr. President, I invite you to my funeral" was Arafat's reply, explaining that he would be a traitor if he agreed. "We may not be able to liberate Jerusalem," he said. "But someone will come and liberate it and raise his flag over...
...part just covering his tracks. And, of course, all spies, by definition, lead double lives. Their hypocrisy is always of the 180-degree variety. One man's loyalty is another's betrayal. Kim Philby - whom Hanssen cited as a kind of spiritual mentor - did not regard himself as a traitor to England but as a loyal soldier to the old Soviet Union. In the end, as the Washington consultant Timothy Dickinson notes, he joined hands with his fellow authoritarians, where "what they dislike is so much more important than what they believe...