Word: insistent
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...your house, I will come in.' I wonder what sort of help that is, with all due respect." And the fact that the U.S. has a fire engine and a corps of firefighters whose capabilities dwarf those of everyone else in the neighborhood makes it difficult to insist on playing second fiddle. Once U.S. troops are off the coast of Monrovia, the political pressure on Washington to send them ashore is likely to grow exponentially...
...That may have kept such claims out of the Bush Administration's speeches justifying a war, but it never stopped Mylroie. Just this month, she appeared before the 9/11 commission continuing to insist the only reason her theories had not been verified was a reluctance in Washington to accept the truth. Just as well that the commission had the good sense to call on the likes of Iraq expert Judith Yaphe and al-Qaeda expert Rohan Guranatra to present a more sober view...
Some in the Administration would like a really ambitious deal to provide the security guarantees and energy supplies the North demands in exchange for the verifiable denuclearization the U.S. requires. In the talks on any such deal, the U.S. would insist the North Koreans jump first by scrapping its nukes. But even so, an Administration hard-liner says, the White House has still not endorsed the hope for a grand bargain...
...Franklin preferred, instead of the eagle. A champion of the right of all to be heard regardless of differing opinions, Franklin would have a lot to say about today's election process. He would demand that voters know the positions of all the presidential candidates, Democrats and Republicans, and insist they all get equal time in public debates. LAURIE DOBSON Rowayton, Conn...
...Seine, a 3-km-long stretch with 3,000 tons of sand, 300 deckchairs and 250 umbrellas. O.K., you're not allowed to swim in the Seine, but there are water sprays and organized games for kids. Last year Paris Plage drew 2.3 million visitors. Even for those who insist on the traditional long getaway - those who each summer confront roads, airways, terrorism, disease, salmonella, stretched budgets and local males with stretch jeans and tmt (too much testosterone) - the European vacation spirit is unconquerable. The thing about vacations is that recollection of the bad bits fades in direct proportion...