Word: inners
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...When Khalifa bumped into his friend by chance on a Cairo street two years ago, he found Mohammed thin and weak, an outward appearance that Khalifa guessed reflected an inner dissatisfaction: "I felt that he was not satisfied, he was fed up with his life there and wanted to return. He was happy at work to a certain degree, but he seemed to regret not having made a family yet. When we met, I had children and he was not yet married. I felt that really bothered him. He appeared sad and when I said good...
...presidential campaign as awkward, stiff and even self-defeating. Halberstam writes, “To those who had studied both Clinton and Gore, the outgoing president was clearly the more skilled politician, his loyalty always calibrated to the needs of the moment, his allegiances, like his thoughts, always inner-directed. Gore, not by any means as gifted a politician, was by contrast the better human being, a man of greater and more consistent beliefs and personal loyalties.” Halberstam’s great details can also, on occasion, be quite funny. Clinton immediately denied his relationship with...
That's why the President's inner circle was not overly worried about the speech to Congress. Even some of his advisers concede that his performance on Sept. 11 left something to be desired. But his aides say Bush turned a corner on the Friday after the attacks, with a speech at the Washington National Cathedral, an impromptu rallying cry amid the rubble at Ground Zero and--in private--two hours comforting, and weeping with, the families of those who have lost loved ones. Andrew Card, his chief of staff, says the President has "made sure that there...
...large numbers of temperate Arabs who were quietly pleased to see American arrogance taken down a notch--business people and family people who smiled and sent messages of congratulations to one another when the Twin Towers fell. The middle sphere forms a substantial recruiting base for the toxic inner hub. It and the outer loop are the reason the U.S. faces an enormous challenge persuading even its allies among Arab governments to sign on to its war against terror. And the entire web of ill will invites the question, Will the U.S. go to war against Middle East enemies...
During the Civil War, average Americans did not demand constant knowledge of the inner workings of Lincoln’s cabinet. They did not gripe when they did not receive advance warning of the president’s policies, and they did not complain about not knowing the Union’s military strategy. All that was required to satisfy Americans then was a clear statement of the government’s intentions: the defeat and re-incorporation of the rebellious states into the Union. Now, however, citizens feel that they have the right to know what goes...