Word: fearfully
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...reached the final," admitted German coach Joachim Löw. The Mannschaft starting brightly in beating Poland, looked dreadful in losing to Croatia, barely adequate in dismissing co-host Austria and strategically sound in mauling the more skillful Portugal in the quarters. But nothing in this team strikes fear into the hearts of its opponents, other than the fact that it's Germany. Which is often enough...
...unpopular. "The appetite for international sanctions has decreased massively in the last 10 or 15 years because it's seen as much more difficult to enforce," says Thomas Cargill of the London-based think tank Chatham House. And since millions of Zimbabweans are struggling simply to survive, Western officials fear that sanctions could render them totally desperate - and more dependent than ever on Mugabe's regime. That's one reason why South Africa - where 1.5 million Zimbabweans are currently seeking refuge, their presence raising the recently violent ire of many poor South Africans - has held off from putting a chokehold...
...audience with the glee of a classroom cutup and the scrupulousness of a social linguist. While his brazen routine caused a sensation (and prompted a lawsuit that eventually made it to the Supreme Court), his intention was not just to shock; it was also to question our irrational fear of language. "There are no bad words," said Carlin. "Bad thoughts. Bad intentions. And woooords...
...sometimes is on college campuses--conservatives begin to suspect that multiculturalism is leading to outright disloyalty. That's why conservative talk radio and Fox News went berserk a couple of years back when some immigrant activists paraded through America's cities waving Mexican flags. It confirmed their deepest fear: that if you let people retain their native tongue and let them spurn American culture for the culture of their native land, they will remain politically loyal to their native land as well...
After years of attacking Democrats with relative impunity for their supposed moral failings, Evangelical leader James Dobson surely didn't expect to suffer much of a backlash when he trained his sights on Barack Obama. Over the years, the party had practically cowered in fear and gone into radio silence when the head of Focus on the Family targeted one of its standard-bearers. So in a campaign that has already proved to be anything but predictable, the counterattack on Dobson this week epitomized the new, fraught political climate that Christian Right leaders like himself face...