Word: counterweight
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...change our minds about what happened and what should have happened. He shows us a vain, bloodthirsty Winston Churchill overeager to wage war and not overly particular about bombing civilians. He shows us Franklin D. Roosevelt turning away European refugees and baiting the Japanese before Pearl Harbor. As a counterweight, Baker spotlights international pacifist movements, with Mohandas Gandhi as their principal spokesperson. Ultimately Baker appears to be making the argument that no violence is ever justifiable, even in self-defense, and that, in Gandhi's words, "Hitlerism and Churchillism are in fact the same thing. The difference is only...
...proposed changes, but nothing's been done. Fidel is always there, monitoring him, tutoring him," says Luís Manuel García, editor of Encuentros, a Madrid-based magazine focused on Cuban affairs. "He's acted as a counterweight to his brother." Malamud expects that even now, that role will not change. "Fidel will continue to be the guardian of orthodoxy. He'll continue to block any change...
...campuses as some of the least free areas in the country,” Horowitz said in an interview with The Crimson. He said there is a tendency in American academia to disregard the threat of extremist Islamic elements for fear of offending Muslims. To serve as an academic counterweight to Horowitz’s claims, Islamic students discussed the difference between scholarly and misguided readings of the Qur’an last night. The question-and-answer session, sponsored by the Harvard Islamic Society (HIS) was attended by approximately 30 students. HIS President Shaheer A. Rizvi...
...demands that he resign as head of the military, drop corruption charges against her and give up the power to dissolve parliament. U.S. officials predict Bhutto's popularity will spike if she returns to power in an alliance with the general because she'll be seen as a counterweight to Musharraf. "The conventional wisdom is that would be enough to steady her numbers," says a U.S. State Department official...
...After Knowles left University Hall in the summer of 2001, the University lacked a counterweight to Summers’ ambition to control the Faculty, Gomes said...