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...Washington has not changed. President Obama continues to get higher ratings for personal likability and trustworthiness than his Republican foes. But there are also signs that Obama is beginning to feel the taint of the long-standing anger against politics and politicians in general. The Wall Street Journal/NBC poll found in December that 61% of the country has only some confidence, or no confidence, in Obama having the right set of goals and priorities to be President. Meanwhile, America's confidence in general remains in the gutter. When asked if they trust that government will do what is right...
...reactor-fuel agreement were revealed, Ahmadinejad was savagely criticized across Iran's political spectrum, for incompetence in signing away a uranium stockpile created at considerable geopolitical expense, and for even accepting a link between that stockpile and Iran's need for fuel for a medical research reactor. And as anger at the uranium-swap deal became a cudgel in the hands Ahmadinejad's domestic rivals, his government began demanding changes in the agreement...
...photos of rescued fighting dogs made me shed tears of joy and anger--joy for their liberation, anger at the despicable criminals who abuse them for a quick buck...
...Since a similar problem in 2002 was resolved by "winterizing" the locomotives so that snow couldn't get into the engine blocks, Eurostar officials were guardedly optimistic that the same method would fix the problem this time. However, even if the trains do start running again, anger over the fiasco won't melt as quickly as the thinning French snow. (See the worst business deals...
...blood - and even worse publicity - is certainly the Christmas gift from hell for Eurostar. And the beneficiaries may be the beleaguered airline industry. Can the airlines take advantage of the anger to reclaim part of the England-France market share they've lost to the train service over the years? Five years ago, Eurostar accounted for just 45% of the travel between the countries; now, the figure stands...