Word: pomp
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...returned to a country that seemed momentarily united in victory. The Lebanese government declared a national holiday, and almost the entire Lebanese Cabinet - politicians who are more often plotting one another's demise than appearing together in public - received the new national heroes at Beirut airport with flowers, rice, pomp and circumstance...
...pomp and circumstance of his inauguration fade, President Suleiman faces a daunting barrage of political obstacles if he is to keep his beleaguered country peaceful, independent and intact...
...there, after much pomp and circumstance, that Bush made his request. And it was there that the King still said...
...first invest massive amounts of money into agricultural credits, transport infrastructure and education, as well as resolve the land disputes left over from the Sandinista confiscations in the 1980s. More basically, he says, Nicaragua needs a plan - something he claims the Ortega government has not articulated, despite its political pomp. Without one, the agricultural expert says, Ortega is just "promising others something he hasn't been able to do at home...
...dinner itself was an unspectacular spread of white wine, white fish, steak and cheesecake. It was followed by President Bush, who rose to offer C-SPAN viewers another reason to doubt political journalists' ability to be anything but cowardly suck-ups to presidential pomp. In recent years, this event has been known mainly for the fantastic performance in 2006 of Stephen Colbert, the Comedy Central host, who addressed the crowd with a withering critique of both the failures of President Bush and the media. "I stand by this man," Colbert had said sarcastically of Bush, at one point. "I stand...