Word: hoping
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...urgently needed legislation, but also for what they perceived, at the time, as a bold foray onto a new political path. Through overtures to Republicans in Congress and perceived concessions in the stimulus package, Obama had given the opposition an offer they couldn’t refuse. Hope had indeed won a mandate. It was only a matter of time before everyone in Washington started seeing the world in a purple...
...There were 17 people who ran for President, and only one survived," Gibbs said in his staff pep talk. "People didn't vote for us just so that we would do the things that any of the other 16 candidates would do." (See pictures of Obama's nation of hope...
...mountains and in cities such as Juarez, Monterrey and Tijuana. That campaign has coincided with skyrocketing violence, as criminal gangs wage war on government forces and on one another, leaving more than 5,300 dead last year. Many citizens support the soldiers, whom they see as Mexico's only hope against thugs armed with high-powered rifles and rocket-propelled grenades. Still, the National Human Rights Commission has documented hundreds of accusations of military abuses, including the killing of at least 13 unarmed civilians and the rape of four women...
...French officials also hope they will take charge of two important NATO outfits: one in Norfolk, Virginia, which oversees alliance reform; and an operational command center in Lisbon, Portugal. Hundreds of French officers will also assume posts in NATO institutions, including its headquarters in Brussels. Tertrais says France also wants to reassure Washington and certain E.U. capitals that France's plans to strengthen Europe's own defense can help the NATO alliance rather than undermine it. "France needs to put an end to questions in the minds of certain allies about whether its desire to construct a European defense identity...
Baghdad museum officials are not sure exactly what the tablets found in Peru say. They eventually hope to have Sumerian language experts decipher the writing, which is etched in great detail over the faces of smoothed stones. But the items will be on display when the Baghdad museum reopens Monday with a special exhibition featuring items that have left Iraq but found their way home...