Word: anxiousness
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...three states he has nicknamed the "Evil Axis." And the targets of his ire - Iran, Iraq and North Korea - have started firing back insults, North Korea raising the rhetorical stakes by accusing the Bush administration of "moral leprosy." But what has U.S. allies in east Asia a little more anxious is the warning by the notoriously skittish regime in Pyongyang that Bush's accusations were "little short of declaring a war" and that "the option to 'strike' impudently advocated by the U.S. is not its monopoly." (Translation: Stop talking crazy or we'll start acting crazy...
...testosterone talk from the White House may be grist to the mill of President Bush's domestic popularity, but it's getting U.S. allies abroad a little nervous. But despite anxious calls to Washington for clarification after the State of the Union address, President Bush delivered a further salvo during an address on Thursday: "People say, what does (the "evil axis" warning) mean? It means they better get their house in order, is what it means. It means they better respect the rule of law. It means they better not try to terrorize America and our friends and allies...
...George W. Bush asked late last week, as his aides labored over the text of Tuesday night's State of the Union address. Bush was gently mocking the endless process--and perhaps acknowledging how many reasons there are for last-minute rewrites: a war and a recession, an anxious public, an aggressive opposition party, and above all the fast-moving story of the largest corporate bankruptcy in U.S. history--a scandal that has so far defied White House attempts to isolate it or explain it away. In the space of five days last week, the story of Enron's collapse...
With politicians of all persuasions anxious to prove that they weren't in the pocket of the boys from Houston and are really working hard to get to the bottom of the Enron mess, hearings on Capital Hill began today. Joe Lieberman, positioning himself for 2004 from the big chair at the Governmental Affairs Committee, is running the Democratic show in the Senate. He'll be trying to stay centrist with fellow Democrat Carl Levin on his left and Fred Thompson on his right - and $11,500 from Arthur Andersen and $2,000 from Enron since 1989 in his pocket...
...Muslims, and therefore heretics to the Taliban. Hazara leaders say the Taliban wanted to exterminate them, and the devastation of the valley lends credence to their claims. But the few Taliban left in the valley, bedraggled prisoners you can see being escorted down the village's main street, were anxious to shift the blame. The Hazara's troubles and the destruction of the Buddhas were the work of Pakistanis and Arabs, the foreign jihadis, says one prisoner, Nisar Ahmad. "It was a very,very bad idea," he says. "We are very sad." The war may be over, but the destruction...