Word: disturbing
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...story "A Paradise Divided" [dec. 8] fails to portray an accurate account of the situation and events in the Maldives, notwithstanding the fact that your correspondent undertook a lengthy interview with His Excellency President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom. The assertion that the riots in Malé did not appear to "disturb Gayoom's reverie" is highly partial-particularly given the fact that immediately after they happened, he appeared on national television talking about them, and visited the relatives of the prisoner who died. What's more, the gibe about a presidential yacht is a cheap one. In a country...
...apart along the Pentagon's E-Ring. Wolfowitz frequently slips down a back hallway, peers through a peephole into his boss's suite and, if Rumsfeld is alone, walks right in. "He's got great power of concentration," says Wolfowitz, "so you can open the door--it doesn't disturb him--until he pauses, and I ask, 'Can you take a minute?'" They talk half a dozen times a day, on matters small and large. Rumsfeld likes to chaff his deputy. "If there's a grammatical error in something I've written," Wolfowitz says, "he loves to correct...
...None of which appears to disturb Gayoom's reverie. Ensconced in his seafront palace, the President is cooing over his victory in October's election when, as the sole candidate, he won 90% of the vote. (Opposition figures abroad insist the elections?conducted by Gayoom's appointees?were rigged. Gayoom denies this.) The President airbrushes away anything that mars his picture of a peaceful paradise. To allegations of profiting from tourism, he declares that "I'm a poor man," despite the presidential yacht bobbing behind him. He says the press is free and the editors of the Internet magazine Sandhaanu...
...main cause of the recent global warming trend. The paper contends that the climate change theories that nearly the entire scientific community agrees upon could easily turn out to be misguided, and that better research is needed to substantiate the alarming claims so often made about our potential to disturb the global climate...
...backpackers in Kathmandu. Shrestha examined their corpses, interviewed eyewitnesses, called in handwriting experts, grilled his "restless" suspect, and was soon sure he had the right man. But in December 1975, Nepal was incredibly polite to foreign visitors so Shrestha's superiors told him to respect the do not disturb sign on the door of Charles Sobhraj's room at Kathmandu's smartest hotel. The inspector's men waited in the lobby for two days for Sobhraj to surrender like a gentleman. Instead, the half-Vietnamese, half-Indian French citizen slipped out the back with his Canadian girlfriend Marie LeClerc. They...