Word: fighters
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...told supporters in Bucharest. "I will turn Romania into a nation of winners." Because no party emerged from parliamentary elections last month with a majority, Basescu must choose the country's new Prime Minister. Next, he promises to tackle the country's corruption and cronyism. "He is a fighter," says Adrian Ursu, an editor at the Bucharest daily, Adevarul. "He thrives on conflict...
...tasks required to begin the delivery of reconstruction aid. That transition won't be easy. Among ordinary citizens, there is almost no confidence that the Iraqis will be up to the task, and they are almost certain to face fresh attacks. "Let the Americans think they are winning," a fighter in Fallujah told TIME. "We are not going anywhere...
...Arafat then? A terrorist? Certainly in the early years and arguably again toward the end. A freedom fighter? Undoubtedly. He lofted the cause of a small, disenfranchised and basically powerless people to the top of the world's agenda. A peacemaker? Many Israelis say that was just an act, but if it was, it was a convincing one, at least for a time. In the end, though, Arafat, for all his calculated obfuscations, proved all too human. It was vanity, selfishness and a failure of courage that ultimately prevented him from realizing his ambition of a state for his people...
...Lately the Senator had been openly referring to Rove as "staff scum," a term of endearment he often uses for his own aides. Now the two discussed the political map and the previous day's events in Florida. Flying with Bush to Pensacola, McCain had told tales of his fighter days in that town. And once they landed, McCain was beside himself with excitement about the size of the crowds. "He kept turning to me and hitting me in the arm and saying, 'I've never seen anything like it,'" said Rove. "I thought I was going to have...
Still, Taylor's story is nothing like the layered look at 9/11 trauma, for instance, in the FX fire-fighter drama Rescue Me. Taylor's reminiscence doesn't teach us much about Taylor except that he's really sad, and the episodes still mostly follow the CSI crime-science-confession formula. Indeed, everyone connected with CSI: NY stresses it will still be mainly a procedural, and with good reason. The franchise has dabbled before in the personal lives of its characters; the original CSI tried a continuing story line in which Grissom began to lose his hearing. "We were fascinated...