Word: bents
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...anything be done to keep small planes - smaller weapons than commercial aircraft, but weapons nonetheless - out of the hands of those bent on harm or suicide? Sure, says Warren Morningstar, vice president for communications at the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, but there's a limit to what officials can change. Much of the responsibility for safety lies in the hands of pilots themselves...
Bush came into office without his father's overseas Rolodex or fascination with the globe. He had traveled little, and though his family had belonged to the internationalist wing of the G.O.P. for years, his conservative bent gave his foreign policy instincts a marked unilateralist swagger. Until the war, Bush's most notable actions in foreign affairs had had a controversial, go-it-alone feel--developing missile defenses, withdrawing from the Kyoto treaty on global warming, undermining peace talks between the Koreas--and had earned him the unease of allies across Europe and the world...
...Tangalu and her family waited in the jungle those two nights, hoping that the Muslims would leave after the attack, as they had a month earlier when they destroyed the nearby village of Patiwunga. But this was no hit-and-run foray by locals bent on revenge. This time, Tangalu soon realized, the attackers had more long-range intentions. So she and her family walked for two more days through the jungle. A police car escorted the family to a Christian rescue group, which then took them to safety in Tentena, where they are staying with some 20 other refugee...
...both sides of the Green Line. On the Israeli side, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, a fixture in Israel’s Labor Party, enjoys respect among Israeli and Palestinian elites. He has impressed Western leaders with his willingness to press for diplomatic solutions even as the Israeli leadership is bent on revenge, and he has maintained a safe distance from Sharon’s right-wing leadership despite serving in the coalition government. The Middle East peace process would also probably do better under former foreign minister Shlomo Ben-Ami, widely perceived as the front-runner for the Labor Party...
That said, take the trees down already. Inappropriate as it is, the swastika comparison shows that to some people, public endorsement of a Christmas tree might be the spiral arm of something dire. And if Christmas trees are so harmless and secular, why are we bent on erecting them? To prove that Our Fun can’t be spoiled by Some Whiny Minority? Let’s find a new way to decorate, one that generates festivity and spirit instead of bad analogies. I recommend bright fabric, big jars of pasta and squashes with wigs...