Word: fatherness
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...without returning the Syrian territory captured in the war of 1967, and he may be ready to find a formula for its return if Syria is truly ready for a peace deal. Syrian President Assad, having established firm control of the often opaque regime he inherited from his late father Hafez al-Assad, appears to be willing to pick up where his father left off in seeking a deal with Israel. Assad was instrumental in starting indirect, Turkey-mediated talks with Israel despite initial opposition by the Bush Administration. In the past, two former Labor Prime Ministers, the late Yitzhak...
...arresting immediacy. He does not toy with the viewer’s emotions; rather he demands that the audience be repulsed, distressed, and deeply moved.After these visceral shocks, McQueen moves in the film’s second part to a lengthy conversation between Sands and his longtime friend, Father Lohan (Liam Cunningham, “The Wind That Shakes the Barley”). Here, as in the rest of the film, McQueen withholds no information from his audience, instead using Lohan to clarify the straightforward events of the plot. Sands’ death is inevitable; there are no plot twists...
...Medvedev's personality was shaped under Putin's strong influence, and he worships Putin like a father figure, or at least like an older brother." - Valery Musin, Medvedev's former academic adviser and law professor at Leningrad State University (the Moscow Times...
...kukri strapped to Mekhman Tamang's hip belt is more than an ordinary family heirloom. When his father bequeathed the traditional knife to him 10 years ago, Tamang, a third-generation Gurkha soldier, also inherited the stout-hearted reputation tethered to thousands of Nepalese men who fought for foreign countries before him. Recruited by the British army in 1999, the 30-year-old soldier has braved hails of Taliban bullets during two recent stints in Afghanistan. But he is uncertain whether he will be able to pass down his kukri - or the Gurkha legacy...
...nearly half of its population living below the poverty line and an average Nepali farmer earning roughly $300 a year. By contrast, Gurkha privates in the British army take home $28,000 a year. "Becoming a Gurkha soldier is a burning ambition for every hill boy," said Tamang's father, Saharman Tamang, 50, who served the British army for 12 years. "Those who make it are hailed as the 'lucky ones.' Money is not the only draw. Those recruited are whisked away to be educated, trained, shown the world and provided with a decent life...