Word: enigma
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...bluster, Ahmadinejad remains an enigma. His powers are limited by Iran's political structure, in which ultimate authority over matters of state rests with the country's Supreme Leader, Ayatullah Ali Khamenei. The regime has threatened to retaliate against American interests "in every part of the world" if the U.S. were ever to launch a military strike against Iran. But Ahmadinejad has also made rhetorical gestures of conciliation, sending an open letter to George W. Bush and inviting the U.S. President to a televised discussion about "the ways of solving the problems of the international community." (Bush ruled...
...soft-talking, sympathetic pragmatist; an LDP man to the core or someone who will continue the turn-the-world-upside-down instincts of his mentor Koizumi, Abe is preparing to take the leadership of the world's second-largest economy?and Asia's most advanced democracy?as an enigma, inside and outside his country...
...Piper remained an enigma no skeptic could fully penetrate. But even she would not be accepted as conclusive proof of a supernatural realm. As the years went by, the psychic researchers themselves passed on to the next world. Predictably, spiritualists reported that some of them started sending back "messages" from beyond to old friends. Or perhaps even that was just another spiritualist charade. In the field of psychic research, the Big Questions always ended in the realm of the Big Maybe...
...gabfests. It will focus the world's attention on two crucial questions: What does Putin's Russia really want? And will that lead to more conflict with other countries, even another cold war? Repayments Churchill's old saw about russia being a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma continues to have force now that the Iron Curtain has long since been pulled back. Moscow's more muscular approach to the world has roots in its domestic politics. And there, a contradictory welter of good and bad developments contend for dominance, giving the Kremlin cause for both expansive confidence...
...hard-hat sequences with the designer explaining and justifying. Perhaps that?s because he really can?t, and possibly thinks it would be pompous to try; striking grand poses does not appear to be part of Gehry?s emotional repertoire. Which brings us to the most interesting enigma this film explores, which is the nature of the artist?s ego. Ours is a democratic era, and democracy tends to reward regular guys and to look somewhat askance at people who do extraordinary things. How many people have you run into who confess that they might have become architects, if only...