Word: leash
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...modest house in Hargeisa, capital of the breakaway republic. After a brief discussion, we asked him if we could see his pets, which include four cheetahs and a lion. Sure, said the minister, "I'll show you how I play with them." Outside he let the lion off the leash and began wrestling with it on a small patch of grass. An aide fetched a plastic chair and placed it in the middle of the lawn so the minister could sit and be interviewed while playing with the lion...
...congressional recess and all-around dearth of news, that marked the Condit tale's ascendancy into the tier just below Monica and O.J. and Jon-Benet. But there was still more unsaid than said, some restraint in the airwaves. Condit's leaked admission was the cutting of the leash...
...laptop but isn't meant for serious computing. Checking e-mail is easy, but a 56-kbps modem makes for pretty poky surfing. The touch panel is fine for sending quick messages, but pushing the on-screen buttons is tedious for anything longer. And it has a short leash: airboarders can drift only 30 m from the base station, a distance that may be fine for Japan's rabbit-hutch homes but is too weak for many rambling American houses...
...Well, Turkey was on a short leash already. The IMF has already provided a $11.4 billion bailout package, with the condition that Turkey reform its banking system. This was a sign that reform - and the political stability that's needed to pull it off - could be in serious trouble...
...this alternative view of voting recognizes the larger context of our campaigns and elections. Politicians function, not with the zero-sum calculus that determines their victory or loss, but rather on the balance of their own popularity. Politicians interpret their margin of victory as the length of the leash granted to their governance. (A fact that should make the next four years very amusing, if nothing else.) By voting, young people get an inch--no matter how small--of the leash granted to our politicians. More plainly, by voting, young people help to set the bounds on what is politically...