Word: doneness
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...Disneyland for her daughter's birthday the next day. "Two connecting rooms that have no theme and are not a suite?" she said disgustedly. "Well, we'll survive." She then had someone put in a call to Michael Eisner to theme and suite things up. This woman gets things done...
...energized and they are working hard and they believe in the small slice of work that's been given them. And that, I think, at least gives me some hope that if we get our strategy right, we still have the most valuable possible resource to get the job done, and that's our men and women in uniform...
...think in Afghanistan, looking at the landscape and the extraordinary poverty involved makes you realize what a daunting task our efforts there are going to be. And it redoubles my belief, or deepens my belief, that if we're going to get that done, we're going to have put in more resources. Both issues [Iraq and Afghanistan] are very difficult. Both situations are very difficult, but it is not clear to me that in the long term Afghanistan isn't a tougher job than Iraq...
...Burma's economy limps along with help from its regional neighbors, including ASEAN members such as Thailand and Singapore as well as non-members India and China. Critics of ASEAN say the forum has not done enough to pressure Burma to end human-rights abuses. Although Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines indicated earlier that they might delay their own ratifications of the charter until Burma cleans up its human-rights record, they have been less publicly forceful in their demands since then. While the U.S. and the European Union have tightened sanctions against Burma's ruling military junta since...
...their families, he had become the personification of the war's brutality. His timely capture and trial held the prospect of justice for Bosnians who had suffered. Many argued his arrest was necessary if the country was to reunite in peace. And for the world that had watched and done little as genocide unfolded in Bosnia, Karadzic's arrest held out hope of a post-cold war order that might prevent similar killings in the future...