Word: rightfulness
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...problem of nuclear weapons in Iran. Specifically, Russian President Dmitri A. Medvedev has expressed a new level of receptiveness to the idea of helping the U.S. curtail Iran’s nuclear ambitions, stating, “We believe we need to help Iran to take a right decision... sanctions rarely lead to productive results, but in some cases, sanctions are inevitable...
...also a makeable one. But for Estes, the memory of Week 1 was still fresh. In the Bears’ season opener against Stony Brook, Brown’s kicker Drew Plichta was called on to hit a 40-yard field goal with time expiring. The kick missed right and the Bears fell...
...went without remark. And that insouciance is exactly why it will be difficult to teach Delhi residents to say "please" and "thank you" and stop all those annoying behaviors in time for the event that will be India's graduation ball. "No one protested because they know Chidambaram is right," says Delhi-based writer Namita Gokhale. "And frankly, no one cares." (Watch a video about Slumdog's opening in India...
...witness to Delhi's layered past. Because people here don't know one another, Delhi folk feel no compunction in replicating the same behaviors they disparage in others - honking horns, staring unabashedly at women (yes, even women stare at other women) and, not to forget, urinating in public, sometimes right next to a urinal. "It's so stressful living in Delhi," says Gokhale. "To survive here, you have to be really pushy, and the result is that the city is completely dehumanizing." (See pictures of Mumbai sifting through the rubble of terrorism...
...Merkel acknowledged her party's win in parliamentary elections in Germany on Sept. 27, she had especially good reason to caution against overexuberance. Her Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) had secured another four-year term as the senior partner in a ruling coalition. And thanks to big gains by the center-right Free Democrats (FDP), who espouse economic liberalism and have a tradition of close ties to Washington, Merkel and her colleagues should be able to shed their existing coalition partner, the Social Democrats (SPD), for what is a more natural political ally. Yet the Christian Democrats did so with a lower...