Word: honest
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...operation was to create the atmosphere for proper provincial elections. One of the goals is to make the election go smoothly," says Harbia. "Now with the outstanding position of al-Maliki in Basra, Amara, Mosul and Sadr City, people are looking to him as an honest and nationalist man." And are Maliki's rivals in the Mahdi Army weaker now than they were a month ago? "This is for certain," Harbia says. "They are outside...
...himself occasionally gigs as a DJ, but in a city as localized and provincial as Changsha, he has few prospects for making a career of it. "I have no wishes or dreams", he says. "When I was young I had dreams but not anymore. Maybe now I am more honest...
...Soltz, VoteVets.org chairman, praising Clark for his "blunt and honest" comments...
...honest, it's a spooky place--his favorite daughter died there, ranting and raving--and all the more worth preserving for that. I played billiards there once, on Mark Twain's table, with Garrison Keillor on his radio show. (Radio is a good medium for billiards because you can lie about how many balls you are sinking.) This is not the first time the house has been threatened by debt. That happened in 1891. Back then it was due to Twain's irrational exuberance. He had set up his own publishing company, which flourished for a while but eventually went...
...Brady also warned against Sarkozy's following his presidential predecessors' tradition of nakedly pushing French national interests in Europe's name. "The E.U. presidency is about achieving consensus. It's about being an honest broker, not a bulldozer," Brady said. He warned that Sarkozy's penchant for glitz and spontaneous policy announcements could be jarring in the more cautious E.U. settings. "Sarkozy has admirable energy, but he does not have diplomatic skill," he said. "At a time of fraught nerves, Europe needs someone to reassure, and I'm not sure Sarkozy is that...