Word: bents
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...demonstration of the Bush Doctrine, a quick and decisive strike against tyranny in the heart of the Middle East. It would also send a message to the rest of the world's malefactors, including Iran and North Korea, to think twice about testing the U.S.'s patience with regimes bent on acquiring weapons of mass destruction...
...those same supporters can also thank L?pez Obrador's own authoritarian bent for helping to whittle away the lead he enjoyed during the campaign. Though he is hardly as radical as Chavez - as even Wall Street bigshots concede - he often sounded sufficiently messianic and self-righteous on the stump to alienate swing voters located somewhere between the poor he champions and the middle-class. Calder?n took his own big hit with voters last month when it was revealed that while he was Energy Secretary, his brother-in-law received a pi?ata of lucrative, energy-related federal contracts...
...deafening. The United States started to discover proof of thousands of militants, sympathetic to al-Qaeda and maybe bent on violence, operating inside Saudi Arabia. Since the warning delivered to Prince Bandar the year before, cooperation between the CIA and Saudi intelligence had broadened. There was still a kernel of distrust - the United States would not show the Saudis its sigint cables - and actionable intelligence it passed along often vanished when it reached the salons of the royal family, whose interests were often inscrutably complex...
...front of the one-way mirror. Julian Vega was 17 and "as fragile as an egg in a carton" when Loughlin nailed him for the claw-hammer murder of a young doctor. Twenty years later, Julian, now prison hardened, has been freed on a technicality and is bent on proving he didn't do it. Loughlin is equally convinced he got the right guy, but his eyesight is failing from degenerative tunnel vision, and the case has taken a bizarre twist: fresh traces of the dead woman's blood have turned up under a new victim's nails. Blauner, winner...
...feel like no one else is going to understand the speech outside our class, and it’ll just make my point,” he says. “I could come off as a giant asshole.” But despite the traditionally humorous bent of the Ivy Orations, Burkle says he still wants to take the opportunity to say something meaningful. “Because I was so active in theater all the time, I felt like I was on an island for a lot of my college career, and I didn?...