Word: face
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Anwar: Shortly after being brought to the police cell, blindfolded and handcuffed, I was severely beaten on the head, neck and face, rendering me somewhat unconscious till morning. I gathered information later from police officers that the direct involvement of the police top brass cannot be excluded. Dr. Mahathir was monitoring developments by the minute...
...trust Gingrich with another two years as Speaker. Most may have been willing, once again, to accept his promises of change--change in management, in decision making, in priorities. But there was one thing Gingrich couldn't change. "The problem for the party is that Newt is the face of the party," said a G.O.P. congressional operative on the eve of Gingrich's resignation. "Until we elect a President, he's the most visible spokesman we have. The snake won't die unless you cut off its head...
...face, the lottery-for-scholarship idea seems like a model of Third Way, New Democrat innovation. The HOPE money is awarded based on merit, so, unlike welfare or affirmative action, its recipients can't be stigmatized as undeserving. And it doesn't raise anyone's taxes. Dixie's Democrats have finally found a winning strategy consistent with their best principles...
...Charles Compton, local head of Plan International relief organization: "We have to keep starvation and infection from claiming as many victims as the hurricane did." When the final tally is in, the assertions of a staggering toll may well be borne out. Those whom the floodwaters did not kill face the problems of isolation, starvation, disease and neglect--the normal stuff of tragedy in Central America, made hundreds of times worse by Mitch's murderous rains...
...Iraq's attitude may well change in the face of a large-scale military campaign: "Saddam created this crisis believing that the U.S. would be isolated and back down," says MacLeod. Instead, eight key Arab states issued a statement Thursday warning Baghdad that there was nothing they could do to avert an attack, and responsibility for avoiding confrontation rests squarely with Baghdad. "Saddam's primary concern is the survival of his regime," says MacLeod. "He believes he'd come out on top if the U.S. backed down, and even if it launched a limited series of air strikes...