Word: rebuff
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...Hizballah, are standing their anti-American ground. Even among right-wing clerics there is disagreement: fundamentalists decry American hypocrisy and arrogance, but pragmatists see the wisdom of temperance. As Taha Hashemi, editor of the daily Entekhab and one of Khamenei's closest advisers, observed just days before Khamenei's rebuff to the U.S.: "Opportunities that come up like this should be used to create a common understanding...
...Arab world is not the geopolitical player it feels entitled to be. The wound is aggravated by a historical memory of grandeur, of Islam's expansion from Arabia in the 7th century to the conquest of the Levant, northern Africa and much of Europe, culminating in a final rebuff at the gates of Vienna 10 centuries later. The question many Arabs ask the U.S. and the West in general, says Professor Jean Leca of the Institute of Political Science in Paris, is, "Why are you leaning so heavily on us when we already had a civilization while you were still...
...Andrea Mitchell reported that Iran is sending signals that it is supportive of our fight against the Taliban. And yet Iran, according to the U.S. State Department, is one of the states that sponsors terrorism. How do we deal with Tehran under those circumstances? Do we rebuff their entreaties or muzzle our guns? Iraq wasn?t mentioned in the speech, but the question of whether we turn our arms on Baghdad looms large - and threatens to break up the coalition Bush is carefully cobbling together. The one bit of wiggle room the President gave himself was the phrase "terrorist groups...
...Andrea Mitchell reported that Iran is sending signals that it is supportive of our fight against the Taliban. And yet Iran, according to the U.S. State Department, is one of the states that sponsors terrorism. How do we deal with Tehran under those circumstances? Do we rebuff their entreaties or muzzle our guns? Iraq wasn?t mentioned in the speech, but the question of whether we turn our arms on Baghdad looms large - and threatens to break up the coalition Bush is carefully cobbling together. The one bit of wiggle room the President gave himself was the phrase "terrorist groups...
...With every rebuff, I would edge away and look around, and the scene - and my journalistic role in it - shook me up. Traders in their colored blazers, men and women who shout for a living, silently grasping at each other with tears in their eyes. Men in suits with flag ties and slumped shoulders, sucking forlornly on a cigarette or a cup of coffee. Scattered halves of cell-phone conversation - "Jimmy?s a nut case now? No, I don?t feel like eating today...