Word: afraid
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...Sean Hannity captured the cocky vibe of the early Bush years, dunking the feckless liberal Alan Colmes for nightly swirlies on the Fox News Channel. Both men remain media dynamos, but it is Beck - nervous, beset, desperate - who now channels the mood of many on the right. "I'm afraid," he has said more than once in recent months. "You should be afraid too." (See Glenn Beck's tribute to Rush Limbaugh in the 2009 TIME...
...fears are many - which is lucky for him, because Beck is responsible for filling multiple hours each day on radio and TV and webcast, plus hundreds of pages each year in his books, his online magazine and his newsletter. What's this rich and talented man afraid of? He is afraid of one-world government, which will turn once proud America into another France. He is afraid that Obama "has a deep-seated hatred for white people" - which doesn't mean, he hastens to add, that he actually thinks "Obama doesn't like white people." He is afraid that both...
...recent anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Beck grew afraid that Americans may no longer be the sort of people who cross mountain ranges in covered wagons and toss hot rivets around in bold bursts of skyscraper-building. Tears came to his eyes (they often do) as he voiced this last fear. But then he remembered that the fiber of ordinary Americans is the one thing Glenn Beck need never fear. So he squared his quivering chin to the camera and held up a snapshot of ground zero, still empty eight long years after the World Trade Center was destroyed...
...close allies, he could exercise veto power over policy legislation and undermine Hatoyama's control. Takao Toshikawa, the editor of the political newsletter Insideline, has named Ozawa the "new shadow shogun" (as has the Economist). He says, "Ozawa's power is increasing day by day, and I'm afraid that if Ozawa's influence becomes much greater, how Hatoyama will maintain leadership." Toshikawa calls Ozawa's views radical, particularly those that could threaten bilateral relations with the U.S. (Read Michael Elliott on Japan's rethinking of the American alliance...
...Afraid I would lose, I asked O'Neal, who I assumed took five minutes to speak his piece to an assistant, how the writing went. He told me it had taken him four hours, five drafts and four friends, who had given him advice. "I tried to use a lot of big words to sound Harvardish," he said. "I just really respect your profession. I didn't want to have too many Ebonic words in there." And I do believe that at Harvard, students now write papers in which they...