Word: bitter
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...struck by the range of responses. "The first reaction of everybody in prison was shocked and sympathetic. It was the second moment that some of them began to express a delight, either open or secret, that America had been humiliated and was now tasting the bitter medicine that many of our countries have been experiencing all these years. The third moment came when America said the culprits were bin Laden and al-Qaeda, and people wondered: How can America accuse without evidence? I left prison at that moment. I went back six months later to a moment of critical assessment...
...professors and administrators, who fought for the tunnel until the bitter end, said they considered it the lynchpin of the new CGIS facility, providing an essential link between related offices in the two buildings and connecting food services to the lecture halls and seminar rooms...
IRAN Like Turkey, Iran is concerned about postwar restiveness in its Kurdish population. It also dislikes the idea of a postwar pro-American government across its border. But Iran fought a bitter war with Iraq from 1980 to '88 and would gleefully watch Saddam Hussein fall. A defanged Iraq would also make Iran the undisputed kingpin in the gulf. Tehran could conceivably offer the U.S. the right to use Iranian territory to launch search-and-rescue missions, as it did during the war in Afghanistan...
...traditional Buddhist fable about a sorcerer drawn into a deadly love affair with a married woman. Woven together, the stories of Dondup and the sorcerer constitute a gently mocking and distinctly Buddhist lesson on the perils of human desire. The film's alternative title, says Khyentse Norbu, is The Bitter and the Sweet of Temporary Things...
...Clinton administration actively campaigned to elect Barak. The current Bush administration, however, agreed to keep the "road map" off the table during Israel's election season. And that may explain why, as Israel went to the polls Tuesday for an election whose outcome is all but given, one bitter peacenik Israeli commentator observed that the only vote that really counts belongs to George Bush...