Word: reasserting
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...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...
...cease-fire. They don't particularly want negotiations right now. They know it may take Arafat a while to reassert the kind of control he had before the intifadah, but right now his security people are not working on Hamas at all. And many of his own personnel are engaged in shooting attacks...
...history of theater and film. He fumbles initially, but by the time his second monologue comes around he's moved into his role with enough assurance to tell as good a story as you'll find in any pub around. Will these stories supplant the movies and reassert the centrality of theater to the cultural life of nations across the globe? Probably not. But there's something satisfying about hearing them, something that no amount of cinematic smoke and lights can begin to touch. Some might say this is how theater got started, in the performing of stories. Whether...