Word: oppresses
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...things: a member of the Class of 1877, the Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, and the twenty-second President of Harvard University. But he was, above all, a dangerous bigot—a man of virulent prejudices who systematically used his position of power to exclude and oppress those whom he hated...
...concerned. So 19 of the 21 arrested?including Rainey and Price?were charged under a section of an 1870 law that was passed, ironically, to control Klan terrorism nearly a century ago. Titled "Conspiracy Against Rights of Citizens," it reads: "If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten or intimidate any citizen in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same . . . they shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than...
...enough to bring about a diplomatic solution. Like their mentor in Moscow, Soviet-style regimes are generically determined at least to neutralize, better yet to destabilize, and ideally to communize other states. They wage war abroad, either outright or by more covert means, for the same reason that they oppress internal opposition: because it is opposition, and because they are totalitarian. Genuine live-and-let-live peaceful coexistence is as alien to a Marxist-Leninist foreign policy as power sharing is to Marxism-Leninism on the home front. The Sandinistas show no sign of being an exception to this rule...
...external events. It is not subject to time and decay, or dependent on the acquisition of things and people. Today, it is what recommends Buddhism to so many people living in societies built around the endless stimulation and satisfaction of individual desires, but which seem to bewilder and oppress people as much as or more than the simpler world to which the Buddha offered his unique therapy...
...economy to a halt for a day of lament. There were flags burned and snowballs thrown, much jostling, some pepper spray. The satirical Billionaires for Bush auctioned off Social Security and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge before moving on to their Re-Coronation Ball (its code: "Dress to oppress"). The spirit of the First Amendment floated down Pennsylvania Avenue, between protesters chanting "Racist, sexist, anti-gay. Bush and Cheney, go away" and their opponents answering "U.S.A.! U.S.A.!" Some signs declared GOD BLESS THE RED, painted over a map of the country, while others cried DRAFT THE TWINS and HOLD SOMEBODY...