Word: bents
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...Klaus left for Iraq fresh from a Rhodes scholarship at Oxford and “Elvis Is Titanic” reflects his intellectual bent. The early chapters of the books are couched in the historic intellectual debate over Western involvement in the Middle East, as he cites everyone from T.S. Eliot to Noam Chomsky to the “9/11 Commission Report...
...sound reasonable, but the Clinton campaign isn't giving up without a fight. In recent weeks it has bent over backward to court the undecided freshmen, inviting many of them to a reception last week at Clinton's Washington home and assuring them that "she will be seen clearly as the most electable Democrat going forward," as Clinton senior strategist Mark Penn told reporters on a conference call over the weekend. "She will play strongly in November with key voting groups: Latinos, women, security moms that in 2004 made the difference." Likewise the up-for-grabs freshmen get near weekly...
...sword brandished above the Native American’s head and the truculent Latin motto added to the seal. The sword and the motto, bounding the Native American, seem to be visually duplicating the violent hegemony which the European colonists held over the natives. The vertical superiority of the bent white arm reinforces the ugly racial superiority that characterized early Puritan history of Massachusetts...
...have been more or less frozen for eight years. In early March, Chinese President Hu Jintao called Taiwan's independence efforts "the biggest threat to peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait." Chen also annoyed Washington, Taiwan's chief ally, which came to see him as a troublemaker bent on escalating tensions with China. At the same time, Chen brought Taiwan no closer to true independence. Instead, the island got further isolated within an Asia that is more tightly linked around an expanding China. "We tried to help our sense of Taiwan identity, but it resulted in self-marginalization...
...flashpoint in six decades of conflict has been Kashmir, which is claimed by both India and Pakistan. For years Pakistan had actively supported a guerrilla insurgency against the Indian authorities, but Islamabad seems to have bent to U.S. pressure and called off the biggest Pakistan-sponsored Kashmir jihadist groups. Pakistani officials long suspected of meddling in Kashmir have lately been kept busy with problems closer to home, such as the insurgencies along the the border with Afghanistan and elsewhere in Pakistan...