Word: mantras
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McCain, a former Navy pilot, made the phrase a mantra during his 5 1/2 years as a POW in Hanoi. Prisoners would find reasons for hope or despair in the smallest things, leading to painful emotional swings. McCain kept his head by controlling his emotions and counseled his fellow captives to do likewise...
President Clinton was so moved by his meeting with survivors of the Rwandan genocide, and his belief that the West had failed to stop the killing, that he was tempted to invoke the ?Never again? mantra that followed the Holocaust. ?But his National Security staff insisted that he hedge any pledge to stop future genocides since it was not a mission that the U.S. military was prepared to take on,? says TIME Managing Editor Walter Isaacson, traveling with the President. ?So, even though he gave a moving speech in Rwanda about the need to stop future genocides, there...
...Addressing the country's parliament today, the President proclaimed partnership, repeated his ?trade-not-aid? mantra, and dished out the plaudits to President Nelson Mandela and his anointed heir, Thabo Mbeki. Nothwithstanding the bonhomie, there may also be some tough talking between the President and his hosts. Mbeki has publicly criticized Clinton over trade issues, while South Africa?s relationships with Washington?s rogues gallery -- Cuba, Libya, Iran and others -- creates periodic spats between the two governments. But none of this will subvert the relationship between the U.S. and the nation with Africa?s strongest economy...
...shows. Unwound's followers at first glance were very into themselves. On further inspection, their narcissism was sickeningly omnipresent. These devotees perspired a style-savvy indie rock posturing not unlike the weight-of-the-world-on-my-shoulders instrumentalists they deified. "I'm cooler than you" was the unspoken mantra of the evening for both band and fan alike...
Look left, look right, and then look left again. That mantra for pedestrian survival might well describe France?s recent political fortunes -- in yesterday?s regional elections, the Socialists further strengthened the grip on power they improbably won last summer, with the only other winner being the far-right National Front...