Word: nationalism
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...This is why I came out here: It is a forgotten place. Forgotten, at least, by the tourists and academics of the stylish sort, whose Adirondack lodges and Urban Institutes largely bypass the dead ends of this nation. It is in forgotten places, however, where there is the most to be remembered. In one conversation, I learned about how Harry Truman was the only good president the country ever had. In another, I learned that the Earth is 6,000 years old. In still another, I learned about the best way to can apple butter...
...break in the action comes at a moment when the nation seems anything but peaceful and its politics far from unified. In the past several days, the presidential campaign has taken on a desperate - and at times downright pathetic - turn...
...parried questions like a fencer. Pressed about her lack of foreign policy experience, she pivoted to her work on oil and gas policy, calling energy "a foundation of national security." Asked if she'd ever traveled outside the country before her trip last year to Kuwait to visit U.S. soldiers, she spun around to call it a trip of a lifetime, since it also included visits with wounded soldiers in Germany - a stop the McCain campaign repeatedly charged Obama with refusing to make during his trip overseas in July. Asked if she'd ever met a head of state...
...think we can second-guess what Israel has to do to secure its nation." And again he asked, and again she declined to "second-guess...
...into the few jobs that are open to the disabled, like paraplegics who can drive three-wheeled motor taxis or those who are sight-impaired and work in massage parlors. The Paralympics offers the hope that watching disabled athletes compete will change old attitudes and improve opportunities for the nation's 83 million handicapped. "I think the Paralympics is great, because it shows that people with disabilities like us are pretty much like normal people," says Fan Chunhe, 23, who has been blind since birth. He came to Beijing five years ago from his village in the mountains of Inner...