Word: hardens
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...sounds as if the draining of the swamp of Middle East extremism is on hold for now, the Arab opposition to the war should have come as no surprise. In September 2000, bitterness toward the U.S. began to harden again. One reason was the breakdown of the U.S.-mediated Israeli-Palestinian peace process, which the U.S. blamed on the Palestinians. Another reason was what Arabs saw as American backing for Israel's strong military response to the Palestinian intifada. In any discussion about Bush's policies, no Arab will fail to remind you that the President once called hard-line...
...terms of capabilities, the regime has its up and downs. This officer mentioned one clever thing that Saddam had done to harden his communications system. "He buried fiber optic cables, which made it much more difficult for us to disrupt the system. But now we're getting to those," he said...
...South Korean officials fear North Korea's withdrawal from the nuclear treaty will harden attitudes in Washington. "It won't [encourage] the American side to resume the dialogue," says a foreign-policy adviser to President-elect Roh. The North may even set an ominous precedent, demonstrating to other marginalized states like Iran that they can seek atomic weapons without much risk. "If you get this one wrong, it's hard to put Humpty-Dumpty back together again," says Henry Sokolski, executive director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center in Washington. In this dangerous game of bluff and counterbluff, North Korea...
...chest was that of Pollock star Marcia Gray Harden; the occasion was a thank you on the set of her new movie. “She came over to me and said, ‘you look so cute I could put you in my bosom and keep you there,’” Ros said. So she did. “It was unbelievable,” he said of the experience...
Terrorism is like a balloon: Squeeze one end, and it expands at the other. As the U.S. and other governments harden security around military facilities, diplomatic posts, key businesses and transportation nodes, terrorist operatives look for targets that are not so well protected. CIA interrogators questioning Omar al-Faruq, the al-Qaeda lieutenant detained in Indonesia in the summer, learned he had cased the U.S. embassy in Jakarta but abandoned an attack when he saw the compound's hefty security. Terrorists have switched to striking Westerners where the risks are lower. As a U.S. intelligence officer says...