Word: grips
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First, it’s not very easy to drum up sympathy for a multi-billion dollar corporation of highly paid athletes whose tight grip on World Series’ rings had been loosened by a gang of overachievers working for Disney. Ben Stiller, I agree: it’s not easy being a eugogolizor...
...Indonesian Islam, but they appear to have been tolerated by a mainstream increasingly suspicious of U.S. intentions - an inclination shared by many Indonesian nationalists long hostile to agendas emanating from Washington. Megawati, like every Indonesian leader since the fall of the Suharto dictatorship in 1998, has a tenuous grip on power maintained through balancing the interests of rival political parties and the military. That has left her reluctant to engage in a battle that might turn even moderate Muslims against...
...Taliban commanders, for at least a few weeks last fall, seriously believed they had a chance. "We're waiting to fight the Americans--if they dare," blustered a general in Kandahar in late October. When a month of U.S. air strikes failed to break the Taliban's grip on power or kill its senior leaders, there was grumbling at home that the war was stalled. Pentagon officials counseled patience; in private, they say now, they felt the Taliban would soon collapse. The U.S. focused its early raids on pounding the Taliban's reserve forces; when the front-line forces called...
...stranglehold on power. Early returns, however, indicated a fundamentalist coalition, the Mutahidda Majlis-e-Amal (MMA), was the unintended beneficiary of Musharraf's banning of past political powerhouses Benazir Bhutto and Mian Mohammed Nawaz Sharif from standing for office. The startling result calls into question Musharraf's grip on power and his ability to closely support America's war on terror...
...evolving as a writer, and The Last DJ contains his most interesting and confident material in a decade. As ever, there are small-time characters with big-time regrets, but whereas previous Petty protagonists had no one to blame but themselves, many of these losers are paralyzed by the grip of corporate culture. On Money Becomes King, he rasps, "If you stretch your imagination, I'll tell you all a tale/About a time when everything wasn't up for sale," while on the title track he curses the end of creative choice over the airwaves. It's not a protest...