Word: unpopular
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...clear violations of the rules of war and the dictates of decency. It is these humanitarian violations more than anything else that have turned the tide of world opinion against the Russian invasion. Moreover, the Russian people seem to have little stomach for the war, which has been greatly unpopular since its initiation almost a month...
...wide areas of the separatist republic's capital, Grozny. It was unclear whether Yeltsin's order, announced as he sent more crack Russian units toward the city, was a prelude to peace talks or a lull before a fresh ground assault. Yeltsin is facing renewed political opposition to the unpopular war at home and abroad. In Moscow, Grigory Yavlinsky, a leading reform lawmaker, called for his resignation. European criticism became unabashed for the first time, as France demanded that Russia explain the increasingly brutal campaign, Germany accused Russia of violating Chechens' human rights and British officials called...
...Pontiff was unfazed by the widespread opprobrium. His popular book and his unpopular diplomacy, he explained to TIME two weeks ago, share one philosophical core: "It always goes back to the sanctity of the human being." He added, "The Pope must be a moral force." In a year when so many people lamented the decline in moral values or made excuses for bad behavior, Pope John Paul II forcefully set forth his vision of the good life and urged the world to follow it. For such rectitude -- or recklessness, as his detractors would have it -- he is TIME...
...Pope had "become a traveling salesman of demographic irrationality." Says dissident Swiss theologian Hans Kung: "This Pope is a disaster for our church. There's charm there, but he's closed-minded." The British Catholic weekly the Tablet summed up Cairo, "Never has the Vatican cared less about being unpopular than under Pope John Paul...
...Hardly a semester passes without some school principal or state legislature trying to smuggle it back in, past the baleful eye of the A.C.L.U. and its postulants on the bench. The 1962 Supreme Court decision that banished prayer from public school classrooms is one of the most unpopular the court has handed down, and surely the only one that unites Newt Gingrich and D.C. mayor-elect Marion Barry...