Word: calls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...limelight ? on TV and in bookstores ? as a rabble-rouser for hire? Besides, times are too good for an agrarian uprising anyway; those who are simply disenchanted with the system far outnumber those who truly despise it. Buchanan claims to want to change what government does; his call to arms is that the government does wrong. Ventura's is only that the government does too much for itself and too little for everyone else, and on top of that does it poorly...
...peacekeeping force. Privately, he pushed other nations to issue an ultimatum to Jakarta: permit such a force or it will be sent in uninvited. A failure to permit peacekeepers into a killing zone like East Timor, he warned Jakarta, was perilously close to a crime against humanity. When Habibie called Annan at home in New York at 7:45 Sunday morning to announce his change of heart--Annan told aides he was "relieved" to get the call--the President said there would be no conditions. East Timor could have it's violently won freedom...
This speech is one of the darkest and most unsettling in the Potter books to date. It creates a vivid physical embodiment of a painful mental state, which Muggles call depression, and it demonstrates Rowling's considerable emotional range. She can be both genuinely scary and consistently funny, adept at both broad slapstick and allusive puns and wordplay. She appeals to the peanut gallery with such items as Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans, a wizard candy that means what it says on its package; it offers every flavor, ranging from chocolate and peppermint to liver and tripe and earwax...
...dollars provided to the government (including about $1 million from the U.S.) have already been stolen. Another shocker: public funds earmarked to pay for tombstones for some of the 7,000 victims of the Srebrenica massacre have vanished. Gilman plans hearings on the corruption this week and will call on the White House to create a "well-protected and highly trained ELLIOT NESS-style financial SWAT team" to pursue the inquiry in Bosnia...
...kind of hairy. What others would call my waist, I call "the line of demarcation." It marks the division between my normal torso and my fur-coated lower body, like some sort of poorly conceived Greek mythical creature. I tried getting rid of some of my body hair once before, when I first started getting chest hairs and would pluck them out. I stopped not because of the pain but because my chest began to look like Manuel Noriega's face. A taut, muscular version of Noriega's face...