Word: grips
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Summers made a few notes on the backhand grip and then discussed the Harvard tennis team’s success last season...
...half the population is Muslim, antagonistic to its own government over issues such as corruption and enraged by the U.S. invasion of Iraq. The Islamist challenge there is growing, with provincial governments instituting Taliban-style Sharia law, and the political system increasingly in crisis. The country is in the grip of a general strike, and five people were killed in riots in Lagos Monday...
...down in the U.S. Constitution of 1787, is the separation of powers between executive, legislature and judiciary. Berlusconi is the executive, dominates the legislature, and is relentlessly going after the judiciary. Nor is the Fourth Estate any safer. Most of the media is owned outright by Berlusconi, and his grip on the rest is so strong that even Italian state television's evening news show, TG1, dubbed over his remarks last week when it ran footage of him making his gaffe. Berlusconi's usurpation of power is a serious political issue - one that catcalls and japes from the benches...
...More than two years of Sharon's hard-line tactics have failed to eliminate the terror threat; instead, the hard-line organizations behind it have grown even more influential over Palestinian political affairs. And 1,000 days of Palestinian suicide terror have not only failed to weaken Israel's grip on the West Bank and Gaza, they have actually strengthened it and all but killed off Labor, the party of Yitzhak Rabin and the traditional peace party, as a serious contender for power in Israel...
...Tiananmen Square massacre), while Jiang Zemin failed in 1999 against the meditation group Falun Gong. Another litmus test is the Party's relationship with the media. Now that public opinion has swung in Hu's favor, he could consolidate his power by loosening the censor's steely grip. This could give him leverage to fight bureaucratic resistance to needed institutional reforms. The option is there, but Hu hasn't taken...