Word: fear
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...just China's self-image that has changed. The quake has altered, at least temporarily, the world's perception of China, whose growing economic and military might is viewed with suspicion and fear in many quarters. China's relationship with the West has been particularly strained after March's bloody demonstrations in Tibet and the chaotic protests that dogged the Olympic Torch relay. But the quake, coming just 10 days after Cyclone Nargis ripped into Burma, has cast the Chinese government in a different light. By blocking foreign aid, Burma's paranoid military junta demonstrated just how impotent and callous...
Driving home one day, Ver?nica (Mar?a Onetto) hits something in the road and is afraid she has run over someone. Her husband tries to assure her it was just a dog she hit, but gradually her fear festers into dementia. As with Three Monkeys, the plot of this Argentine non-drama makes it sound more interesting than it is. The film is inert, visually tiring, utterly lacking in suspense; nothing changes except Onetto's hair color. Martel won some international converts for The Holy Girl in 2004, but this time the acolytes are likely to become apostates...
During those giddy, unexpected days when the cold war unraveled - when hippies in Prague sang passionate ballads not about Che Guevara but General George Patton - there was no denying that our world had been transformed. A century scarred by world wars, genocide and the fear of nuclear annihilation seemed to vanish before our eyes. This genuine euphoria, embraced by left and right alike, was captured in Francis Fukuyama's 1992 best seller The End of History and the Last Man, in which he argued that we may have reached "the end point of mankind's ideological evolution and the universalization...
...modest fall in prices is hardly the end of the world for those who are still sitting on mountainous profits amassed during Britain's years of plenty. But for more recent buyers, now stuck with rising interest payments on ever less valuable houses, there is mounting fear - and a belated realization that property is not a one-way bet, after all. "It's always good to remind people that investing in long-term, expensive assets is a risky business," says Michael Ball, professor of urban and property economics at the University of Reading Business School. The current wobble has "brought...
...most important of the tough issues Bush's successor will inherit in the region is the confrontation with Iran. In Israel and the Arab states there is mounting unease, in some cases outright fear, at the idea of a nuclear Iran. But Iran is shrugging off U.N. sanctions that Russia and China are ensuring remain half-hearted. And with the U.S. pinned down in Iraq and Afghanistan there's little Washington can do to scare Iran into changing its ambitions. On Sunday, on the flight back to Washington, when Condoleezza Rice was asked if there was any progress on pressuring...