Word: repression
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...petrol dollars,” profits generated by the OPEC oil monopoly. In a display of remarkable unrestraint, these creditors pushed questionable loans on developing countries. Prominent among the loan recipients were a cast of unscrupulous dictators who used the easy cash to pad their Swiss bank accounts and repress their own citizens. Selfless leaders like Mubutu of Zaire, Marcos of the Philippines, Suharto of Indonesia, and Idi Amin of Uganda may no longer be in power, but thanks to the debt they incurred their legacies live...
...President Summers. To anyone familiar with Harvard’s legacy of past connections, it does not become our sincerity to feign surprise at this latest link. As the article notes, Summers and Kissinger are similar figures in more ways than one. Still, it’s hard to repress a twinge of astonishment at this latest bold-faced alliance. Kissinger, who never travels out of the country without checking first for outstanding warrants against him, has been widely noted as a war criminal whose deeds have done more to disfigure the global landscape than most men this century...
...forgetfulness or spite; the others are ours and were stuck there outside the bounds of space and time to allow us to focus on present exigencies. Excluded from our plans and schemes, they subsist of their own will and take on malignant proportions. Only a superbly efficient soul can repress the symptoms completely. The rest of us will never be free of the varmints...
...rationale for the war--the goal of establishing not only peace but freedom and progress in the region. After all the American promises of planting democracy where it has not grown, it would be hard to walk away content with supplanting one despot with another who promises to repress only his subjects and not the rest of the region. --Reported by Massimo Calabresi, Mark Thompson and Adam Zagorin/Washington; Bruce Crumley/Paris; Meenakshi Ganguly/Baghdad; Aparisim Ghosh/Basra; Scott MacLeod/Cairo; and Paul Quinn-Judge/Moscow
Christine C. Yokoyama ’04, a Crimson editor, is a social studies concentrator in Adams House. She is an exhibition design intern at the National Museum of American History but avoids the museum’s public areas during operating hours to repress her desire to kick spoiled children in the shins...