Word: asserting
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...Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of its Enemies is the latest attempt to solve the puzzle of Islamic rage-and it is possibly the most provocative. Its authors, Ian Buruma, a respected commentator on Asian affairs, and Avishai Margalit, a professor of philosophy at Jerusalem's Hebrew University, assert that the ideas inspiring bin Laden and his fellow terrorists originally sprang from the West...
...detainees held at the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba may challenge their captivity in federal court. It's one of three cases on the court's docket this month that strike at a linchpin of the Bush Administration's counterterrorism policy: that a wartime President may assert sweeping executive authority in the interest of national security. By late June, the court may issue key rulings on separation-of-powers issues, such as whether U.S. citizens can be locked up indefinitely without court review if the Pentagon deems them "enemy combatants." But the Justices may have already wielded some influence...
...movie that they loathe, notice a critical consensus surrounding it and redirect their animosity towards the “out-of-touch” critics. The critics will respond in kind with an admonition of the masses’ susceptibility to Big Hollywood, making blunt attempts to simultaneously assert and conceal their claims to intellectual superiority...
...Jewish tradition wants to assert that a relationship between two people who are in love physically as well as emotionally can be consecrated,” he said...
...60th anniversary of the D-day invasion. There he will meet French President Jacques Chirac and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder, the two most persistent critics of the war among U.S. allies. Bush, his aides expect, will hail "the greatest generation," drape that same mantle on those fighting today and assert that the struggle in Iraq is a noble...