Word: rashness
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...Kurdish New Year, Nawroz, is the mythical date of the defeat of the evil king Dahak. The holiday was on March 21 but in the northern Iraqi village of Barda Rash, they had it again today. "Nawroz means the end of a tyrannical king," said Khasro Kadir, who organized the celebration. "For us it's the end of Saddam's tyranny." For 12 years the village has been directly on the front lines between Iraqi forces and the peshmerga guarding Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq. Today they sang and danced around the traditional Nawroz fire, 20 days late...
...That could be a rash judgment. Yet, it is the view as I hear it from many Westernized Arabs, including top businessmen, academics, government officials, students and ordinary folks, as well as from some old diplomatic hands in Western embassies around the region. Rarely have I heard such scathing, widespread criticism of the U.S. in the Middle East. Listen to a relatively polite sampling from leading dailies in Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, countries with long-standing, friendly and strategic ties with Washington: "(American troops) are purely forces of invasion and occupation that are motivated by hatred and obsessed with...
...raise $10 million in production costs?a low budget for a Hollywood movie, but astronomical for most Asian features. Then there was the issue of shooting in a country where no Western film crew had completed an entire movie since 1964, when Peter O'Toole braved cobras, heat rash and corrupt officials during the making of Lord Jim. Although many Asia hands advised Dillon to shoot in neighboring Thailand instead, he insisted that Cambodia, with its French-influenced architecture and postwar fragility, was a location that couldn't be substituted. "There are things you'd never worry about in other...
Diplomacy is rarely so rash. And yet, "It would certainly catch the mullahs by surprise," says Azar Nafisi, an Iranian dissident who is a fellow at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. "It would drive them crazy," she adds, laughing, "the thought of having an American embassy in Tehran again, with lines of people around the block, trying to get green cards. There is a theory that American cultural and economic power is so insidiously attractive that opening up to the U.S. would be the death of these regimes. I've heard it called the Fatal...
...Diplomacy is rarely so rash. And yet, "It would certainly catch the mullahs by surprise," says Azar Nafisi, an Iranian dissident who is a fellow at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. "It would drive them crazy," she adds, laughing, "the thought of having an American embassy in Tehran again, with lines of people around the block, trying to get green cards. There is a theory that American cultural and economic power is so insidiously attractive that opening up to the U.S. would be the death of these regimes. I've heard it called the Fatal...