Word: presentism
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...Coldplay's Viva La Vida and Rihanna's Umbrella played in the background as Faust mingled and talked with those present, pausing to shake hands and pose for pictures...
...jihad, some experts contend, has moved beyond Bin Laden and al-Qaeda. Dr. Marc Sageman, a former CIA case officer, lays out the view in his new book, Leaderless Jihad, arguing that "the present threat has evolved from a structured group of al-Qaeda masterminds controlling vast resources and issuing commands to a multitude of informal groups trying to emulate their predecessors by conceiving and executing operations from the bottom up. These 'homegrown' wannabes form a scattered global network, a leaderless jihad." According to this assessment, two decades since its founding in Peshawar, Pakistan, al-Qaeda remains a source...
...writer-- to draw some larger conclusion about events that, on most days, wouldn't have warranted a second look. While I have learned a good deal in the short amount of time I have spend in the city, any sweeping generalization about life that I could draw at present would almost certainly be a stretch...
...Iranian officials present during Mottaki's remarks stressed that the foreign minister was trying to strike a positive note, while not backing off from any of his government's long-held positions. For years Iran has suggested it was ready for compromise, only to adopt hard-line positions as it moved ahead on a nuclear program that could give it the means to build atomic weapons. But in New York City, Mottaki seemed to encourage rapprochement, urging more "people to people" exchanges between the U.S. and Iran and saying "proposals for direct flights as well as an interest section...
...crafting a commensurate response. Maybe we lack the ability to plan so far in ahead. In the U.S., the talk today is of gas prices, not global warming, and the first serious attempt at a federal carbon cap recently went fell in an embarrassing defeat in the Senate. Present fears overwhelm us, something Blair should know well - his Gleneagles G8 summit in 2005 was meant to focus on development and climate change, but it was instead dominated by the London bombings, which had occurred a few days earlier...