Word: frantic
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...Osama bin Laden among them? It seemed possible last week. This dust-blown speck on the map became the target of frantic media interest after Pakistani intelligence leaked news to reporters that U.S. special forces were hunting for him around this area, and that members of bin Laden's family were somewhere across the border in Iran. An Afghan commander in Kandahar claimed that two of bin Laden's sons--al-Qaeda members said to keep within close range of their father--were caught sheltering with the Zehri tribe of Baluchistan and were now in the hands of U.S. interrogators...
HACIA members said the last few hours before they fly south are frantic ones...
From there, the game settled into a less-frantic pace, with neither team able to shake the other...
...Vardalos has been frantic, on set until 11 every night, she says, trying to make the scripts less sitcomish. "Our mandate in the writers' room is small stories," she says, forcing the writers to avoid the conflicts that organically come from the cultural dissonance she wrote into the film. "What I want is no jokes. I don't want lines like 'Good morning, honey.' 'Not in that shirt it's not!'" The show, however, is still very much a sitcom, with a lot of jokes. At a rehearsal for an upcoming episode, Andrea Martin as Aunt Voula walks...
...more centrist "Brazilian Blair," as Brazilian and Wall Street pundits have taken to calling him. So far the mix of social crusade and fiscal discipline has won Lula an 84% approval rating - even though he has yet to score a real achievement - and unexpected applause from Wall Street, where frantic fear of him during last year's election campaign helped push Brazil's currency, the real, down by more than 50% against the U.S. dollar. "The left in Brazil has learned the hard way," says Meirelles, referring to decades of populist economic catastrophes that were finally halted by Lula...