Word: reigns
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...events set off by Sept. 11 are everywhere to see, yet there are opportunities too. He has an unprecedented opening before him to remake a failing state into one where extremism might no longer flourish. And he seems determined to take it. For the first time in his short reign, he is directly confronting the religious radicals who shape so much of the country's domestic and foreign policy to a radical agenda. "This is a battle for the heart and soul of Pakistan," says Chris Smith, senior research fellow at King's College London Center for Defense Studies...
...Even at the Khoja Bahauddin bazaar, where commerce and enterprise should reign, there is little movement. Shopkeepers lazily eye customers. There is little reason to hustle. Everyone sells the same dusty goods - banana biscuits and tomato paste from the Islamic Republic of Iran, wormy apples from neighboring Bagram province and the sole product (until last weekend) from the United States of America: Selsun Blue anti-dandruff shampoo...
...trimming perks like free air travel from the estimated 30,000 members of the extended clan, the public still gripes about rampant official corruption, ranging from taking commissions on arms deals to muscling in on private businessmen. Sclerosis in royal succession is also a problem: because tradition hands the reign from one son of Ibn Saud to another, the current King, 80, and the next three in line are all well past Western retirement...
...11th utterly destroyed the buffer that separated our most horrific and surreal imaginings from the realm of possibility. Our dark storyteller was given free reign in the world of the conceivable and, predictably, gas masks, Cipro and cell phones began flying off the shelves. And, imagining even more previously unimaginable images, the American public was loath to once again trudge down the jetway onto what they perceived as suicidal cruise missiles. Even now, the airline industry reports business around 40 percent lower than this time last year...
...line: for many countries, such as Indonesia or Malaysia, staying out of the fray is simply the national interest. The U.S. must also be wary of abandoning liberal and democratic principles in the name of solidarity against its new enemy, terrorism. Washington must be careful not to give free reign to a regime just because it joins the alliance. In recent years, Uighurs, Kurds, Tibetans and Chechens have all resorted to bombs to protest oppression. The bombs may be wrong, but their struggles for self-determination, once much applauded in the West, may be legitimate. Likewise, should the ex-communist...