Word: beget
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...balance wheel in Asia, helping its friends, keeping power distributed?as Asians might say?harmoniously. In the future, that task will be even more vital than it has been in the past. The choice of a U.S. President, even a re-elected one, sends ripples around the world that beget new ripples everywhere they strike. Asians will be watching to see if the second Bush Administration understands what power?sometimes unintentional?it has and how much Asians want that power to be used for the benefit...
...said in a phone call that he and Han thought about the potential danger involved in endorsing the “Asian American” label, since labels often beget stereotypes...
...realist" camp in the Bush administration, as personified by Secretary of State Colin Powell, was deeply skeptical of the Iraq invasion because of the dire consequences they believed it would beget. And on Iraq, they have long advocated greater engagement with the regime in Iran as the only way to address U.S. concerns, insisting that talk of regime-change is hopelessly optimistic and dangerously na?ve. This perspective is outlined in a new report from the Council on Foreign Relations whose authors include top security officials from the Carter and Reagan administrations. It argues that the regime in Tehran is basically...
...search for any conceivable solace, I find it in the varieties of courage the other soldiers have shown, including the courage to report the ones who did this. Humiliation--in this case America's own--may beget humility, of which there has at times been a shortage in the face of so daunting a challenge as Iraq poses. And as for the violation of American values, we must recalculate the cost of the post-9/11 instinct to change the rules we play by, detain whomever we need to, forget due process and forgo the Geneva Convention. If this...
...convoluted all at once. But the ease or difficulty of such a feat shouldn’t be the issue here: Kaufman, along with “creative” filmmakers like Wes Anderson and Darren Aronofsky, have proven that audacity and innovation don’t automatically beget relatable characters, untiresome plotting, or, as I alluded to with the “sadness” line, thematic grace; if Kaufman didn’t want the line to be trite and heavy-handed, he should have found a different way to express the sentiment behind...