Word: phalanxes
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Society now is all too ready to blame the victim, while simultaneously making a victim of the perpetrator. Leo Braudy, author of The Frenzy of Renown: Fame and Its History, says "The celebrity is constantly being told how great and wonderful he is by a phalanx of yes-men and supporters, so his sense of self-justification is so much stronger. In O.J.'s mind and in his so- called suicide note, he is the victim." Before this is over, Nicole will be the bitch who ate Brentwood and asked for everything she got. As for O.J? He was only...
Joining the growing phalanx of courts around the country that have attacked the military ban on gays, a federal district court in Seattle ordered the Washington National Guard to reinstate Colonel Margarethe Cammermeyer, a highly decorated nurse and a lesbian. Although the decision struck down as unconstitutional the Pentagon's old, pre-1994 prohibition against gays, the court's reasoning provides ammunition for assailing the new "don't ask, don't tell, don't pursue" policy...
...Iron Curtain coming down between Russia and Eastern Europe are widespread in Moscow, but NATO Secretary-General Manfred Worner insists they are misplaced. "Nothing this alliance will do will be against Russia," he insists. East European leaders say much the same thing and suggest that a solid phalanx of new NATO states in the region would be a force for stability...
...whole issues comes down to boastful civic pride. For some reason, cities think that without a phalanx of professional sports teams, they will turn into ghost towns...
...group of skinheads in California had a dream, but it was decidedly different from the one imagined by Martin Luther King. Their vision allegedly went like this: a phalanx of skinheads with machine guns would invade the First African Methodist Episcopal Church in Los Angeles. The congregation would be sprayed with bullets, and the pastor, (the Rev.) Cecil Murray, would be murdered. Across the U.S., other blacks were potential targets -- Rodney King, (the Rev.) Al Sharpton, the rap group Public Enemy, perhaps even a baseball player. An all-out race war would be triggered, a final, bloody Ragnarok...