Word: reasserted
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...time, no doubt, the Tigers' bubble will burst, as all their other streaks have ended. The Giants, owned by the same company that dominates the country's radio and television networks and owns its largest newspaper, will reassert their place atop the tribal hierarchy. The plangent sounds of "When the Wind Blows from Mount Rokko," the Tigers' fight-song, will recede from the department stores. Order will restore itself as it always does after Carnival and Saturnalia (especially in tradition-loving Japan). But by then something may have been achieved that could change the hearts of a country always ready...
...before them, have known nothing but war - and who have become radicalized as a result. "We condemn the terror," says Salambek Maigov, Chechen rebel President Aslan Maskhadov's representative in Moscow, "but neither the Kremlin nor we can control the situation any longer." Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed to reassert his control. "Terrorists must be plucked out of the basements and caves and destroyed," he said after the attack on the rock festival. The tough talk echoed his promise during the 1999 election campaign "to rub out the terrorists on the john," remarks that preceded a brutal crackdown in Chechnya...
...Americans struggle to fill key posts, unreformed Baathist hard-liners are trying to reassert their authority. "We've left the bad Baathists a lot of latitude, and they have had a lot of time to regroup," says retired Colonel Ted Seel, Central Command liaison to the Iraqi National Congress, a group opposed to Saddam that recently returned from exile. Dr. Goran Talabani, a neurologist who is advising the Americans on Iraq's health-care system, says Baath loyalists are threatening Health Ministry employees and telling them not to cooperate with the Americans. Talabani, a cousin of Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani...
...those limits are not made meaningless by legislative loopholes and crafty campaign lawyers. The High Court—which has the final say on reform—should recognize the rights of American voters over the rights of wealthy special interests. A ruling in favor of McCain-Feingold would reassert the principles of American democracy and score a victory for voters...
...reformist leader Deng Xiaoping by chanting en masse, "Hello, Xiaoping." The support of politically active youth helped cement Deng's authority, and students today hope to do the same for Hu. "We need to show our support for Hu Jintao, because if he becomes weak, the Old Guard could reassert their power," says Kitty Wang, a student at Shanghai's Jiaotong University, former President Jiang Zemin's alma mater. "That would be terrible, because many of the reforms we are hoping for will not have a chance to grow." In this telegenic age, students have also taken...