Word: seeker
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...newspaper interview, Sevran said, "Africa is dying from all the children born there" to parents supposedly too sexually undisciplined or dumb to realize they could not feed them all. The answer to the problem? "We need sterilize half the planet," Sevran emphatically replied. Known as an relentless attention-seeker, the defiant Sevran drew only limited fire for his comments, and a public rebuke from his public television employer - though not the cancellation of his Sunday program that many demanded. Appalled at the light punishment, the government of Niger (itself a victim of recent famines) announced it would file libel charges...
...there are questions that the government's free-market economic godfathers, always on the prowl for a rent-seeker or free-loader, could be asking. Where do you draw the line between a sustainable farm and an unsustainable one? It's a judgment that has been made on entire industries in the past, when governments removed or cut the tariffs that protected the manufacturing sector. Why prop up farmers who are bad managers or whose poor practices on unproductive land are hurting the environment? The signals drought policy sends to good farmers are certainly mixed. And how come...
...common sense in responding to letters that come into the EWC website. The counselors read letters posted on the site and choose the ones they feel best equipped to handle. Once a letter has been selected, it's no longer available to other mentors to answer unless the advice seeker specifically asks for a second opinion. All letters of advice are reviewed by a committee of volunteers that makes sure that the issues are addressed and that no medical, legal or tax advice has been offered before the messages are e-mailed to the individuals who have requested help. Direct...
...second-class citizens of empire-the maids, the drivers, the delivery boys, the rural poor-than he is with his establishment peers. He sends his servants' children to costly international schools; he puts up an incessant parade of deserving cases at his government quarters (from a disabled Nigerian asylum seeker to the abandoned son of destitute Chinese refugees); and, despite warnings of treason on the eve of the 1982 Falklands war, insists on dining with the Argentine consul, who is about to be deported, "because he is a family friend." Any erstwhile colleagues who suspected Moss of harboring anti-establishment...
...Bush assassination fable in the Condon spirit would have Dubya in 2007 privately ready to back out of Iraq, only to be stopped by a gunman hired by Bush's old strings-puller, and the new president, Dick Cheney. But a peacenik or Islamist or disgruntled office-seeker pulling the trigger? Not if he considers the consequences. Those around Richard Nixon used to joke that no one would shoot him, because then Spiro Agnew would become President. Similarly, anyone who harbored murderous impulses toward Bush might think for a minute and, to put in in Maureen Dowd terms...