Word: nationalism
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...Have we turned into a nation of docile sheep? After eight years of hardships and sacrifices - from this dismal economy, horrendous gas prices, and double wars in Iraq and Afghanistan - why would we want more of the same misery from "McPalin"? Palin is so extreme in her views that she may as well be a mullah in a dress. Her utter lack of political nous and international knowledge is shameful. This country will be the world's laughing stock if this sort of Republican ticket makes it to the Oval Office. McCain picking Palin is a big insult...
...focused his remarks on what he saw as the dilemmas of an increasingly globalized, interdependent world. Citing the present financial crisis and violence in Georgia as examples of the interconnectedness of today’s world, he referred to challenges that had “no respect for national frontiers.” Barroso pointed to the increasing utility of “soft power,” which he defined almost exclusively in diplomatic and cultural terms, in dealing with international crises. Students and scholars in attendance said they shared Barroso’s enthusiasm for a global solution...
...proposed $700 billion bailout of the nation's beleaguered financial markets has become a taffy pull between the Bush Administration and lawmakers from both parties. Many on Capitol Hill believe Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is seeking too much unregulated cash and power in his effort to stabilize the economy by buying up toxic mortgage-backed securities. He's also asking Congress to lift the ceiling on the national debt to a record $11.3 trillion from the current $10.6 trillion, which could weaken the U.S. dollar, raise interest rates and act as an additional drag on the economy. All that money...
...most Harvard students, dealing with climate change means changing desk lamps to energy-saving bulbs or recycling their class handouts. For the citizens of Kiribati, an island nation of 100,000 in the Pacific, it means a full-scale abandonment of the island and the eventual disintegration of their culture...
...need to show a united face to the world in the approach to the Olympics. But within days of the closing ceremony, a public protest demonstration against the government in a Beijing suburb signaled that the grace period was over. The string of disasters that has befallen the nation since then will only add to questions about where the limits of the long-suffering public's patience lie. This week, anger over the tainted-milk-powder scandal was palpable at one of Beijing's main Children's Hospitals, where hundreds of anxious parents were lined up with their toddlers waiting...