Word: loyalism
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...loyal Mahdi Army fighter since the Shi'ite militia was established in 2003, Abbas is now wanted by the Iraqi government. But his story echoes those of many of Iraq's young fighters; it's one not of cold-blooded murderers but of avengers. "Al-Qaeda killed my brother. They kidnapped him from a street near his home in 2006. They wrapped his head in plastic until he suffocated to death," he says. "He was 23, and his wife was five months pregnant. Those people [who killed him] were his neighbors - his friends." (Abbas later caught and killed them...
Yousuf Raza Gilani is the Prime Minister of Pakistan and as such is visiting the U.S. this week. He came to the role via tragedy, elevated from the vacuum created by the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, the former Prime Minister to whom he had long been loyal. Despite Gilani's title, however, it is Bhutto's widower, the controversial Asif Ali Zardari, who is the true power behind Bhutto's People's Party and who has made the bulk of the decisions from his heavily guarded home in a leafy Islamabad neighborhood. Zardari is not shy about his influence, using...
...Isoventionism, Part II After two days of intense talks between Robert Oakley, President Clinton's new envoy in Somalia, and aides to General Mohammed Farrah Aidid, forces loyal to Aidid released Michael Durant, the American helicopter pilot they had held for 11 days, as well as a Nigerian peacekeeper held captive since last month. President Clinton and Aidid both claimed that no deal had been made for the prisoners' release, although the move coincided with a new willingness on the part of Oakley and Clinton to include Aidid's faction in efforts toward a political solution to Somalia's problems...
...might be the Ascot Gavotte from My Fair Lady. Nostalgia, as wispy as the scent of marijuana that permeated the SkyDome, is itself decadent. By highlighting the past, Madonna is saying the present has little to offer. In doing so, she is also forging a bond with her loyal gay audience. It is an axiom of pop culture that no uncloseted gay man can be a star but that women can be stars by appropriating gay motifs. Bette Midler steals gays' jokes; Madonna steals their style. It's not just in the Nazified naughtiness of her night-at-the-Anvil...
...attack machine. But Obama isn't like other candidates. In his 2006 best seller, The Audacity of Hope, Obama wrote of himself, "I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views." So as his pragmatic side fills that screen, those loyal foot soldiers who got used to seeing their own reflections are beginning to cry betrayal. The people in Obama's movement feel they have an open line directly to him, and these days many want their objections heeded. "It's a wake-up call on how much wiggle room...