Word: reasserting
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Chou argues that straight white men, forced into the cultural shadows by the late 20th-century obsession with diversity, are finally able to reassert their identities by reading Maxim and watching programs like Comedy Central’s “The Man Show.” “They can overthrow political correctness and politeness and be proud of being a man again,” she says. But some Maxim readers disagree, arguing that there is nothing new going on here. “Man has always been about looking at hot chicks and power tools...
...politics have warned of for months - that the aging leader's political authority has waned over the course of the current intifada to the point that he is no longer able to impose his will on the Palestinian street. Or, he is unable to find the political will to reassert his authority against the tide of Palestinian public opinion. Either way, the upshot is the same...
...Seen from here, the U.S. seems to be fighting three wars in Afghanistan. In the north, they apparently assume that the United Front/Northern Alliance, with its predominance of Cajiks, Uzbeks and other northern ethnic groups, has a right to reassert its control. In the center, on the Kabul front, U.S. assistance is invisible, and North Alliance irritation with the Americans is tangible. In the south, where there are no Alliance troops, the U.S. Friday sent in their own, more than a hundred on a mission around Kandahar. The U.S. has also deployed the sort of killing machines...
...Branegan: It was very important for the U.S. to resume the surveillance flights, to reassert the principle that they had the right to make these flights in international airspace. That's even more important than getting the plane back under humiliating circumstances. And there would be no advantage to waiting for the plane to be returned before resuming the flights, since that would give the Chinese an incentive to keep the plane. The principle that the plane should be returned is self-evident; the principle that the U.S. has the right to fly surveillance missions in international airspace needed...
...parliamentary fray, the generals have warned the politicians to keep their differences off the streets. While there are no fears of an imminent coup, a long-term bout of political instability at the center amid an unraveling in the provinces would certainly raise the temptation among the generals to reassert a more direct grip on power. And right now it's hard to imagine any of the alternatives to Wahid escaping the chronic instability and infighting that has dogged his reign...