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Maliki may have been emboldened by demonstrations in support of the agreement that have taken place in several cities. Or he may just be desperate: if he can't break the coalition opposed to the deal, the deal is effectively dead. Hoping, perhaps, to frighten his opponents into their senses, he painted a grim picture of what would happen if the SOFA weren't ratified. Iraq, he said, would have to ask the United Nations to renew the mandate that allows the U.S. military to occupy the country, and that would mean Iraq's security would remain in American hands...
...came to steal and conquer, not to explore and discover. That a place cannot be discovered when people are already living there. That Columbus was responsible for the death of an estimated 8 million Indians in the Caribbean alone. Though we may be ashamed of it, though it may frighten us, it does a disservice to the nation as a whole to conceal the truth, be it out of egotism or ambivalence...
...awaken his patriotism--Kelsey Grammer as George Patton, Jon Voight as George Washington and Chriss Anglin as Republicans' favorite Democrat, John F. Kennedy. Conservative country singer Trace Adkins shows up as the angel of death, and Bill O'Reilly plays another imposing figure: himself. To persuade Malone, the ghosts frighten him with visions of classic liberal villains--zombie ACLU lawyers staggering into court, Ivy League professors singing a ditty about being stuck in the '60s, and Jimmy Carter addressing a crowd of sheeplike antiwar protesters. "If you can explode a cliché or point out the emperor has no clothes...
...Russia has always been a risky place to do business, but that hasn't prevented a huge flow of international investments into the economy this decade. The question now is whether the country's latest bout of economic instability will frighten away, possibly for years to come, the foreign capital the country needs to thrive. No, answers Marc Lhermitte, a partner at Ernst & Young, which in September published a survey of the attractiveness of leading cities. Moscow scored high on the list; Chinese investors ranked the Russian capital just behind Paris, for example. Despite all the recent economic and geopolitical...
...these stations in New York . . . were just all over the record. I thought the rest of the country would be, too. Then everybody started [sending] all this hate mail. To me it was just a song. I would hear Pete Seeger [discussing] the power of music to frighten people and to change people. Suddenly there I was in the middle...