Word: reigns
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...today. Egregious jackasses whose laziness and sense of entitlement have caused them to lose their starting positions and who then succumb to unlimited sex, drugs and fried foods will remain ascendant, their posters plastered on the walls of boys' bedrooms across America. But it's pro wrestlers who will reign supreme, because they are the embodiment of sport as soap opera. With wrestling's incomparable melding of the trailer park and Valhalla, its intricate and interlacing narratives, its music, pyrotechnic stagecraft and glorification of oratory, it is the Gesamtkunstwerk--the total artwork--of the sports and entertainment world. Professional wrestling...
...seem to be going well for Germany's Social Democratic Party. Perhaps too well. The Social Democrats rode the wave of the centrist "Third Way" politics that swept Western Europe in the late 90s to wrest control from the CDU in 1998 and end Helmut Kohl's 15-year reign as chancellor. Now Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder is enjoying high approval ratings and the weakened CDU isn't even opposing the Social Democrats in two key upcoming state elections. But the Social Democrats' top brass weren't gloating Wednesday when CDU chief Wolfgang Schaeuble resigned over the campaign-funding scandal centered...
...makes sense that no candidate, in this day and age, would want the label of "isolationist." But Republicans have fallen a long way since Ronald Reagan's reign, when intervention was at least employed as a means to a worthy end--the destruction of the Soviet Union. Today, Republicans endorse crusade after crusade, each time undertaking a newly permanent international commitment that results in more, rather than less, human suffering. Republicans have been intoxicated by a new internationalist machismo that offers one final claim to greatness by the leaders of the post-Cold War era. But eleven years after...
...period of peace--until it becomes obvious that he will spare no one and nothing, not even her home-state, in his bid to be emperor. She then turns to Jing Ke (Zhang Fengyi), renowned assassin of virtuosic sword-wielding abilities, to put an end to Ying Zheng's reign of tyranny. Haunted by the ghosts of his victims but redeemed by the love that springs up between him and Lady Zhao, Jing Ke sets off for a final showdown with Ying Zheng...
...health should become a factor in considering his fate only aftera trial. Officials of the present government suggest the general may yet face charges in Chile, but this is made unlikely not only by his health and the immunity he decreed for himself at the end of his reign, but also by the fact that his supporters are well placed to win Saturday's runoff presidential election. Nonetheless, the general's release won't be much of a victory for Pinochet and his supporters, who initially fought hard against the perceived insult of freeing him on compassionate grounds rather than...