Word: hoping
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...first 100 days, President Barack Obama has had to address such issues as torture, pirates, increasing unemployment, trouble in the Big Three car companies and corruption on Wall Street [May 4]. And yet for the first time in a long while, I have seen Americans begin to have hope for a stronger America. Congratulations, Mr. President, for giving Americans something they were seeking and sorely lacking. Anthony P. Johnson, Philadelphia...
...provide investment guarantees and protect intellectual property. There is a reason to hurry. In 2010, China is slated to slash tariffs on goods from nations in Southeast Asia, potentially putting Taiwan's products at a greater disadvantage in the China market. Through a bilateral trade agreement, Ma says, "We hope we can avoid the marginalization of Taiwan as a result of regional economic integration in East Asia...
...first 100 days, President Barack Obama has had to address torture, pirates, rising unemployment, trouble in the auto industry and corruption on Wall Street [May 4]. Yet at last I have seen Americans begin to hope for a stronger America. Congratulations, Mr. President, for giving Americans something they badly lacked. Anthony P. Johnson, PHILADELPHIA...
...Grand Jury prize in 2003 for Oldboy. But the really startling awards were in the supporting categories. Kinatay, which depicts the torture, beheading and dismemberment of a prostitute, was almost universally reviled. In the critics' poll for Film Francais magazine, this grotty little melodrama from Brillante Mendoza, the forlorn hope of Filipino cinema, was given the lowest rating of any official selection. But somebody must think that Mendoza really is brilliant. "It's not a dating film," one jury member, playwright and screenwriter Hanif Kureishi, acknowledged at the press conference. "It's not a film I would see again...
...those who experienced the bite of the cold during Russia and Ukraine's gas row last winter, they can only hope an agreement between the two sides is not as far off as Khabarovsk is from Brussels...