Word: headlong
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Senate has already cleaved in two the $726 billion price tag for Bush's plan. Even the normally lockstep House has voted to cap the cut at $550 billion. The public isn't enthusiastic either--only 42% think tax cuts are a good idea--but Bush continues to push headlong into the battle...
With thousands having taken to the streets the world over to oppose the Bush administration’s headlong rush to war against Iraq, a Harvard Law School (HLS) alum is pursuing a less conventional form of opposition. John C. Bonifaz is suing the President...
...Snow's Red Star Over China. He was too late, of course: Deng Xiaoping had already started his radical transformation of the country. Undaunted, Brahm folded his romantic visions of a communist utopia between the pages of his Little Red Book, left it on the shelf and plunged headlong into a rapidly modernizing China. He apprenticed himself to a British law firm and from there moved into consulting for multinational corporations trying to get into China. His romance with the country deepened with his marriage to the daughter of a Chinese general?a relationship that has presumably made it easier...
JUST A KISS. Billed as “a romantic comedy as Kafkaesque nightmare,” this ambitious black comedy about naughty thirtysomethings toes the line between film and animation. One disloyal kiss throws the lives of jaded urban couples into chaos, sending them headlong into unlikely liaisons with a seductive cellist, a cinephile stewardess and a dominatrix bowling alley attendant (Marisa Tomei). While rookie director Fisher Stevens’ conception of Kafka seems to center on angsty witticisms, indie rock and lots of skinny people wearing black, the film’s imaginative play promises plenty...
Here again, though, the headlong rush to embrace violence is producing a backlash. Suicide attacks have proved so repugnant in Europe and the U.S. that they have begun to erode support for the Palestinian cause there. They have also contributed significantly to the free hand wielded by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who has completely destroyed the infrastructure of the West Bank. Palestinian intellectuals and members of civil society have also recognized the bombings as a political disaster and are leading calls for their immediate halt. In taking the intifadeh hostage, Islamic radicals waging jihad have won, at best...