Word: alongism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...receive the heir to the Japanese throne? Or the one-shouldered white cocktail number that she paired this summer in Mallorca with the chunky necklace? It wasn't that long ago that Letizia Ortiz, 37, tended to dress in the anchorwoman's power blazers and pastel cardigans. But somewhere along the line, the former journalist has become a fashion icon, coming in number two on Vanity Fair's renowned Best Dressed List for 2009. That's what being princess of Spain - or at least getting used to the role - will do for a person...
...loyal to President Hamid Karzai. For dining, you had a choice of Mexican, Balkan, Lebanese, Indian, Thai, American and Chinese restaurants. The Chinese places were often fronts for brothels, and off-limits to Afghans, but any Kabuli male would tell you feverishly which of these establishments were selling girls along with the noodles. (Will the U.S. settle for Karzai...
...main Kabul-Kandahar highway, which was supposed to be a symbol to Afghans of the benefits of an American-backed government. If you're a foreigner or a rich Afghan, you can fly to Kandahar. Otherwise, ordinary Afghans have to take their chances with the Taliban and the bandits along the highway. "Three years ago" one foreign academic and longtime Kabul resident told me, "Afghans had hope for the future. Now they don't." (Read a story about how roadside bombs have devastated Afghanistan...
...that the U.S.-Japan alliance is "the most important relationship for Japan." At the same time, Ozawa insisted that in "global disputes," Japan should take a "U.N.-approach." "When it comes to an exercise of power by the U.S. alone," Ozawa said, "then Japan is not able to go along." Within a U.N framework of dispute resolution, however, "Japan should be proactive in rendering support." Ozawa said that this position was "starkly different" from that taken by the LDP. He really could not have been clearer that a DPJ government would mean a new line on foreign policy...
...after an investigation by a local agency - Action Pour Les Enfants-Cambodia - alleged that he had lured three Cambodian boys ages 9 to 12 to his home with toys and candies. Court documents state that Sporich also enticed them by dropping Cambodian currency in the street as he rode along on a motorbike...