Word: tribalized
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Balata and Nablus are not the only Palestinian communities torn by internal conflict. Tribal, social and regional enmities throughout the Palestinian territories grow more violent by the day. The intifadeh was supposed to free Palestinians from Israeli occupation, but it is fast pushing them into crime, poverty and gang war. Since the arrival of the Palestinian Authority seven years ago, the society of the West Bank and Gaza Strip has been cracking under the dual strains of Arafat's corrupt rule and continued occupation by Israel. The intifadeh took those fissures and blew them apart. This semi-anarchy has alarming...
...Whatever the motives of the gallows crowds of old, they at least acknowledged execution as a collective act. Today it is a tribal taboo, a purification ritual that dirties those who come in contact with it. And just as the majority of Americans still agree that it is right to kill killers but don't agree on why (revenge? deterrence? respect?), we are also not certain why it is wrong simply to watch the deed carried out. Would it horrify us or make us jaded? (Or - dare we say it - sympathetic?) Would it feed our bloodlust or weaken our will...
...tribal people of Dhar in central India's Madhya Pradesh have found magic in a box. Gendalal Verma, a farmer from Bagdi village, seeks its wisdom every week. He rides his motorcycle along 8 km of bumpy paths until he comes to a simple PC housed in a kiosk. He doesn't surf, but looks up the price of garlic in the wholesale markets of nearby towns to make sure area middlemen aren't shortchanging him. The difference can be more than $4.25 on 100 kg of garlic, and Verma has 9,000 kg ready to harvest. "The traders...
...care how many Survivors you have," Colby said, "you'll never be able to predict the winner." And I don't care how unabashedly plastic the Live in the CBS Studio Tribal Council finale was - we'll forgive almost anything as long as it preserves the suspense...
...this: Everybody had waited all this time, weeks since "Survivor" finished taping in the Australian Outback, so CBS could do it live. Thursday night. May 3, 2001. In the studio, recreated in the image of the real Tribal Council cave, with everybody in the same exact clothes they wore that fateful last gathering all those cutting rooms ago. And Probst was there, and Colby (who had really hit the pantry in the interim), and Tina, because in the hour before (in Television Time, that is) the cowboy and the nurse had entered into some weird suicide pact...