Word: bente
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...death? We are a nation obsessed with vengeance. And this is the same emotion that drives terrorists like bin Laden. I hope he's dead, but if he is alive, I hope he is never caught. I do not want to see the U.S. as hell-bent on vengeance and barbarism as the terrorists are. DAVID E. SCHAEFER Waterloo...
...between two visions of Messier. First, I see a Shakespearean character: he rose swiftly, lost everything, was betrayed by his peers and stabbed in the back by his own corporate family, eviscerated by the market and misunderstood by all. But he will quickly rise again - stronger, more determined and bent on buying up Mickey Mouse and McDonald's to create a planetary holding that will reveal to the world the obvious synergies between the mouse and fast food. The other interpretation is Messier as Tartuffe: after rapidly scaling a summit too high for him, Messier was blown away...
...down the paper American flag adorned with Bush quotes that we received from our local Republican Party—reports that Jews have found a new cable news hero in Alan Keyes, whose homophobic, xenophobic, anti-abortion, Christian chauvinist rants have apparently been overlooked due to the pro-Israel bent of his MSNBC show, “Making Sense.” The Anti-Defamation League’s usually honorable Abraham H. Foxman is the latest Bush apologist, airily dismissing concerns about Bush’s security plans earlier this month in an article entitled “Just...
...Duterte suffers from none of the charges that dog most Philippine politicians: that he is beholden to vested interests, obsessed with retaining power, or bent on accumulating its spoils. He is accepted and welcomed because he has delivered Davao from the bloody days of the 1970s and 1980s when the city was known as the murder capital of the Philippines. During the 21-year rule of strongman Ferdinand Marcos, the military spared neither the rod nor the gun to battle a spate of insurgencies, including one by the communist New People's Army (NPA). By the end of Marcos' reign...
...Teutonic theorist Siegfried Kracauer praised him for injecting realism in Hollywood films by "dancing over table tops and down garden paths into the real world." Kracauer was totally wrong - Astaire didn't bring realism but rather a nonchalant nobility to movies - but it's touching that the nutty professor bent his theory to accommodate a tap dancer he loved...