Word: nods
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...Yang says China's nod to let Taiwan in this time was a gesture of goodwill. The WHA is a relatively low-risk international body for China to allow Taiwan to enter, as it is a health body, without strong political implications that could allow Taiwan to be treated as an independent nation. Taiwan has been invited to participate under the agreed upon name "Chinese Taipei" - the same name Taiwan uses for its Olympic team...
Ahmadinejad's uncharacteristic nod to Israel's existence may herald an important change in Iranian foreign policy. Iran watchers believe that Ahmadinejad's shift on Israel, subtle and tentative as it was, could be an attempt to send a positive signal to the U.S., in response to the olive branch President Barack Obama extended during the Persian New Year. Ahmadinejad's statement may be particularly important now, if seen as a prelude to next month's talks on Iran's nuclear program that will include U.S. diplomats for the first time. Breaking with the Bush Administration's open hostility...
...romps. Skinny-dipping, soccer with young children, crazy nights out on the town—Thurber presses the “summer” button again and again. Hours pass lounging at the abandoned “Cloud Factory,” Thurber’s lone and treacly nod to Pittsburgh’s industrial past.But it’s not all fun with Cleve and Jane. As an antidote to the plot’s syrupiness, Thurber plops in a very vinegary element: the mob. References to the Pittsburgh gang scene run throughout the movie, just detailed enough...
...Another group fears Koh may get the nod for the Supreme Court at some point in the Obama presidency and wants to bloody him now in preparation for that fight. "We have been watching and studying up on Koh for a long time," says one GOP judiciary committee staffer. "We didn't anticipate that he'd be named for legal adviser; now that he has, we've encouraged others to focus on his radical views even more." (Read "Fox News Continues Reign with Big Three...
...presidential nod on Tuesday toward the creation of what some are calling a "truth commission" to ferret out the origin of the harsh interrogations is likely to get renewed traction. Democrats Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont and Representative John Conyers of Michigan, who head the two congressional judiciary committees, have argued for such a panel, modeled on the widely respected one that studied 9/11. Having sparked the current conflagration by releasing the memos, Obama can only hope that creating such a commission could tamp it down - and keep this political firestorm from sucking up the valuable political oxygen he needs...