Word: doubtfulness
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Given the scenes Monday of microphones being thrust into doorways stormed by riot police, and the virtual integration of journalists within the operation, there is no doubt the media was a desired presence. But by whom? Participating reporters said they were alerted as early as last Friday by officials of unions representing police officers. Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie strongly condemned those "leaks that produced such significant media attention to this operation" - ones that she noted "could have had grave consequences" for its success. Other government officials similarly scoffed at the notion of Sarkozy or his cabinet else risking...
...Olympic Spirit that separates sports from politics." But those responses came nearly two days after Spielberg announced his decision to withdraw, adding yet another news cycle to an issue Beijing clearly wanted to go away. "They need to learn to do a better job of this, there's no doubt," says David Zweig, director of the Center on China's Transnational Relations at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, of how Beijing has handled the setback. "It's always funny how a country that is so sensitive to propaganda can't do a good...
...Sting. They had us convinced that their nominating process was some version of the Salem witch trials, testing the candidates for any sign of heresy and hanging or drowning the ones who flunked. Then they choose the very guy many Republicans most suspect of being a witch. If you doubt that the whole thing was staged, just consider who the runner-up was. How could a party truly dedicated to self-destruction through ideological purity end up with the choice of McCain or Romney...
...Ohio and Texas and Pennsylvania go to the polls and hope the voters themselves resolve things, as they should. As Yale political scientist Donald Green says, "We are deeply suspicious of anything that does not ultimately trace its institutional roots back to an election." And there is no doubt that we have a real election going...
...political parties had descended into violence and opposition parties were threatening to boycott the poll. The new military-backed Caretaker Government brought peace to the streets and promised to clean up Bangladesh's rampant corruption, fix its institutions and hold clean elections. One year on and there is no doubt the government has begun the work it set itself: two former prime ministers are in jail awaiting trial, hundreds of other senior officials have been arrested, and the slow if important work of overhauling some of Bangladesh's broken state bodies is underway...