Word: scaring
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...possibility last week, few insiders consider it likely. "If John Paul was going to resign, it would have already happened," says longtime Rome-based Jesuit priest Keith Pecklers. "He identifies with the mystery of Christ's suffering." Keeping the world updated last week on the Pope's latest health scare was Joaquín Navarro-Valls. A former psychiatrist and journalist, the 68-year-old Spaniard has been the papal spokesman since 1984 and is in constant contact with the Holy Father. Though some veteran Vatican watchers complain that Navarro-Valls spins the world about the Pope's physical condition...
...Still, there is little reason to doubt the basics of the latest medical concern that created, then rather quickly seems to have dispelled, the biggest scare for the faithful in years. The Pope was hoarse but in high spirits at Sunday's traditional Angelus prayer in St. Peter's Square. Less than 24 hours later, papal spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls released a statement canceling all of John Paul's appointments for Monday because of what was described as a mild case of the flu. The plugged-in Italian press corps took a light approach to the story by noting that...
...Iraq, and they are doing it now on Social Security." (As for voters, they don't seem to know what to make of the real situation: in the TIME poll, 45% agreed with Bush that the system faces a "crisis"; 44% said the claim was just a "scare tactic...
...Dirty War can be didactic and self-congratulatory, it also smartly balances a thriller's plotting with an astute eye for politics and bureaucratic idiocy. Whether you consider it a gripping, worthy scare or titillating scaremongering may depend on whether you think it is a fair warning or a grim preview reel of inevitable coming attractions. For the sake of all of us, if not of the movie, let's hope it's the former...
Roger M. Milgrim, a New York intellectual property attorney and the author of Milgrim on Trade Secrets, said that Apple might be trying to scare off other sites from copying Think Secret’s tactics...