Word: panning
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...Romanov Russia. And his smarmy coziness with Putin, an autocrat for whom he had nothing but praise, belies his fidelity to the cause of a free society. It is hardly a stretch to link the current turmoil in Georgian separatist regions with Solzhenitsyn’s nefarious fantasy of pan-Slavic nationhood. Any honest obituary of Alexander Solzhenitsyn must take into account his shelf-life as a writer and his severe failures as a political visionary. For genuine liberal critiques of totalitarian society, we can always go back to Orwell. As for a perversely beautiful celebration of the Russian spirit...
...Ready Just in case your last-minute maneuvers don't pan out, the author strenuously advocates fortifying your position with a solid bank account, a fresh résumé and a network of contacts...
...predictions of an electoral trouncing, Hong Kong's democrats managed to keep their toehold on political influence in the Sept. 7 elections, winning 24 seats in the city's 60-member legislature and maintaining their veto power over any changes to the territory's constitution. "At the beginning, the pan-democrats were nervous about the result," says James Sung, a political scientist at the City University of Hong Kong. "But they still maintain good momentum, and they have the power of constitutional review. In this sense, they are the winner...
...Democratic Party, and Anson Chan, a popular former top civil servant, both declined to run for reelection in order to make way for a younger generation of democrats. According to City University's Sung, their absence may have contributed to the depressed voter turnout. "I think after the election, pan-democrats have to think why turnout was lower than the expected," says Sung of the democrats' current disunity. "People are unhappy because there are too many small mountains: too many words, not enough ideas, and not enough solidarity...
Weller was a member of the World Health Organization, the Pan American Health Organization, and the International Health Organization of the Rockefeller Foundation. Consultative assignments took him to St. Lucia, Trinidad, Egypt, Thailand, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait. In 1972, Weller helped to establish the Wellcome Trust, a research and training center in Salvador, Brazil, for young physicians and scientists interested in tropical medicine...