Word: criticism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...planting the trees of the future, we do not deserve to stand in the shade of the trees of the past.” Witt oversaw the elevation of FEMA to a Cabinet-level agency under former President Clinton. He lambasted the Bush administration for gutting the agency and criticized the rise of political appointments at agencies such as FEMA. “Our country has never seen a response that failed so bad,” Witt said of the government’s reaction to Hurricane Katrina. “Thirteen hundred people did not have to lose...
...meeting, which stretched into the early-morning hours, took place at the Makito home of Jose Cojuangco, brother of former President Corazon Aquino. While Cojuangco's daughter kept a buffet table piled high with chicken sandwiches, macaroni salad and cookies, Pastor Saycon, a businessman and longtime Arroyo critic, outlined plans for a new government. (Saycon invited TIME's Nelly Sindayen to witness the meeting.) While more than a dozen businessmen and politicians listened, Saycon phoned a person he identified as a U.S. official in Washington. "You will still be our friend, not China," Saycon assured the man. Saycon then phoned...
...Representative Robert Jaworski, Jr. and former Representative Ding Tanjuatco, were in and out of the meeting, which ran well past 1 a.m. While one of Cojuangco's daughters kept a buffet table piled high with chicken sandwiches, macaroni salad, corn and cookies, Pastor Saycon, a businessman and longtime Arroyo critic, discussed a new government. As the others listened, Saycon spoke over the phone to a person he identified as an American official in Washington, assuring him that the post-coup regime would remain on good terms with the U.S. "You will still be our friend," he said. Then, around...
...Virtues Critic Richard Corliss's piece "How the West Was Won Over" described the critical acclaim received by the movie Brokeback Mountain [Jan. 30]. I only wish we could hear someone at the Academy Awards announce, "The Oscar goes to Brokeback Mountain for showing how virility, strong-mindedness and self-confidence are not inconsistent with being gay, and for enabling us to understand how truth, love and freedom are the only ideals anyone ought to aspire to." Davide Locuratolo Potenza, Italy...
...difficult to decipher where the technical merits of each side?s argument end and the raw political motives begin. The Bush Administration considers Chavez a threat to stability in the region, while Chavez is a loudly outspoken U.S. critic who calls Bush "the greatest terrorist in the world" and says that the U.S. is poised to either assassinate him or invade Venezuela for its oil reserves...