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...displaced by the latest combat, though no journalists can enter the conflict zone to confirm this. Whatever the outcome of this campaign, the work of accounting for both sides' misdeeds and of repatching Sri Lanka's tattered society must begin. There, as elsewhere, peace cannot be won by military bravado alone...
...Perhaps of greater concern to Trump is whether even his famous bravado can carry off a $1 billion-plus development at a time of anemic institutional lending. Trump says he has the cash to build it, but he has already seen other ambitious projects crunched by the credit crisis: according to the Philadelphia Inquirer, his company recently announced the postponement of construction of the $300-million Trump Tower Philadelphia. Scottish conservationists may yet take heart: if there's anything more delicate or unstable than their beloved sand dunes, it's the current global economy...
...hour is late; our troubles are getting worse; our enemies watch," McCain declared. "We have to act immediately. We have to change direction now. We have to fight." True, when it came to his own campaign effort, he tried for a trace of bravado, saying, "We're 6 points down. The national media has written us off ... My friends, we've got them just where we want them...
...stall is characterized by long periods of boredom punctuated by brief flashes of drama. Late in the debate, Obama was killing time with a stern patch of bravado: "We will kill Bin Laden. We will crush al-Qaeda," and so on. How dead would that guy be by now if American speeches could kill a person...
...Ibis appears on our horizon off the coast of India in 1838 - a period often romanticized in fiction through narratives of imperial bravado. But this won't do for Ghosh, a veteran postcolonialist. He instead depicts India as it most likely was under the thumb of Britain's East India Company. Its once bounteous countryside is now run by Company edict, with farmers ordered to grow poppies to feed colossal opium factories, in whose noxious environs even monkeys slump in "a miasma of lethargy." Their fields given over to drug cultivation, thousands of starving, impoverished villagers leave for new pastures...