Word: esteem
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...past the front door of his Kabul office. The national army and the police force are still new and feeble. Most of his provincial governors are viewed as corrupt, and all are toothless in the face of regional warlords who rule life outside the capital. Far from appreciating the esteem that Karzai enjoys in the West, many Afghans see him as an American puppet. Most are either more loyal to or more frightened of the well-armed warlords...
...offers us a decidedly depressing glimpse into the marriage of washed-up teen popsters Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey (of 98 Degrees). For those who haven’t seen it, the premise is simple: Jessica says something dumb, Nick bashes her psychologically and Jessica’s self-esteem plummets. Fight, sulk, repeat. Like Penelope and Tom in Vanilla Sky, Jessica and Nick succeed in making us profoundly uncomfortable because in the end, we know what we are seeing is real...
...recent episode of the reality TV series “Extreme Makeover” featured Dan, a middle-aged producer and father from Seattle. Dan wanted an extreme makeover to “improve his self-esteem and catch the eye of a co-worker he’s had a crush on.” But instead of cutting his hair and giving him a nice new suit to wear to work, Dan had the following done: jowl implants (what is a jowl?), buckle pads excision (don’t know what that is either), liposuction on the cheeks...
...gossip. They want to know the story, and they have to tell it--because it's important and because it's such great dish. Often these impulses result in nothing more elevated than a refried handout or a disposable movie review. But some newspeople risk more than their self-esteem to keep the public informed. At least a dozen reporters have been killed covering the current Iraq engagement; 148 have died in Russia of unnatural causes since 1992. And usually these deaths go largely unmourned, sadly unnoticed...
...will not have an easy time figuring out why weapons expert David Kelly was moved to kill himself in July. A psychiatrist suggested that Kelly's public exposure - after admitting to his managers that he had talked to BBC journalist Andrew Gilligan - had caused "the severe loss of self-esteem ... from feeling that [his employers] had lost trust in him." But whatever Hutton can deduce about the anguish that Kelly took to his grave, the millions of words in testimony, documents and e-mails he received in evidence - and instantly put on his website - have painted a gripping picture...