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After taking on various government officials in defense of First Amendment rights, Goldstein turned his vicious tongue against his own family because he was not invited to his son Jordan’s graduation from HLS. Goldstein blames his ex-wife and the influence of Harvard itself for his exclusion. “Harvard is a disgrace. It took a perfectly normal son that I was proud of and turned him into an [expletive] unworthy...
...protests in the League against the Italian bombardment, but no credible response was authorized. Then, in 1931, Japanese armed forces took over the Chinese province of Manchuria and subsequently established the puppet state of Manchukuo. Once again, despite a chorus of denunciations, the League was unable to thwart the vicious imperialism of an autocratic regime...
...It’s a vicious cycle,” Marty said, parroting his favorite line from Austin Powers...
...also lampooned him wickedly in Kukly (The Puppets), its popular satirical show. Kukly presented a touchy Putin as a crazed shrink, or an offstage presence referred to as Gospod Bog (Lord God) or just G.B., a pun on his past as a KGB officer. Another caricature - "Little Zaches," a vicious dwarf who bewitched a city into regarding him as a wise ruler - particularly infuriated Putin and his camp. The ax fell in mid-2000, when Gusinsky was accused of embezzlement and arrested. He left the country and eventually was forced to sell his assets to Gazprom, the state-run natural...
...lives. The group behind the El Nogal bombing and the Caquetá killings - the Marxist, 18,000-member Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC), the country's largest guerrilla army - has been branded a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department (as has the A.U.C., an umbrella group of vicious right-wing paramilitary armies, and a smaller leftist group known as the E.L.N.). Last week, Uribe convinced the U.N. Security Council to label them as such; and the usually timid Organization of American States pledged to help weaken the FARC, whose land-reform ideology has been poisoned by criminal enterprise. FARC...