Word: tribalized
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...pink--the blinds, the iron bed, the vanity, the dresser. A gust of stardust, and in breezes Molly: impossibly clear complexion (considering her deep-fry diet), hair like Ronald McDonald's, the famous waxed-candy lips semaphoring a smile. Today she is dressed in black, with standard-teen tribal earrings (diamond-encrusted loops, ruby stud in left ear), and as she says, "Hi," she piles her hair into a Wilma Flintstone topknot...
...establish democratic governments elsewhere. Jefferson questioned whether democracy could flourish in all circumstances, suggesting that it might be effective only at certain times and places where conditions allowed. Today in most parts of the world it does not exist or is not understood. It is difficult to achieve in tribal, rigidly hierarchical or other traditional societies. It requires a sophisticated calculus of tolerance: the notion that if I take away my neighbor's freedom for some immediate gain today, he may take away mine tomorrow. It requires an ability to compromise, to restrain religious and racial passions. It requires...
There was one, er, problem, Blay-Miezah told his investors. To gain access to the money, he had to fulfill a number of complicated conditions that included presenting a specially numbered diplomatic passport to the banks and cutting deals with certain tribal chiefs. Outside funds were necessary to pay expenses incurred as Blay-Miezah wheeled and dealed to get to the mother lode...
...success of the tribe-wide co-op has taught the Kuna how to apply the same principles to even larger matters. Spurred by the construction of a road into their territory and the threat of forced development from outside, the Kuna men have formed a second tribal cooperative to manage the land and water resources of their nearly autonomous homeland. Their efforts have been impressive enough to win international support, including a $225,000 grant . from the MacArthur Foundation. "The Indians have made it into the 20th century intact," says Ann Wenzel, an American friend in Panama...
...past has made an impression on Montgomery. The city's air reverberates with dead glories and brags, old rhetoric, old songs gusting out of the tribal ^ memory. The state capitol amounts to a sort of truculent shrine. A memorial to the Confederate dead stands on its grounds. "When this historic shaft shall crumbling lie," begins a grandiloquent inscription carved in the stone, "In ages hence, in woman's heart will be/ A folded flag, a thrilling page unrolled,/ A deathless song of southern chivalry...