Word: sentimentals
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...That sentiment is precisely what worries Beijing. As China gears up for an expected succession struggle in the Politburo later this year, the Communist Party wants to ensure that no group nibbles away at its hold on power. Thus Beijing's severe crackdown on Falun Gong, the Buddhist-exercise movement that spooked China's leaders by getting 10,000 followers to protest in front of Beijing's leadership compound three years ago. The demonstration prompted the hasty passage of a law dictating harsh punishment to anyone involved in a cult?while conveniently failing to define what exactly constitutes one. "Anytime...
...spokesman defended the attack by posing a challenge to Arafat: "What have you to show for meeting the demands of the Zionist entity and America?" And in the eyes of most Palestinians, the answer is nothing. The renewal of attacks by Hamas may be designed precisely to exploit that sentiment, knowing full well that these will bring a fearsome Israeli response down on the heads of Arafat's authority...
...script work on Stepmom and The Story of Us. But, lordie, does I Am Sam open the tear ducts! Movie theaters may have to install sluice gates, thanks to Penn's solid, precise and brave performance and his warming kinship with Fanning. He makes the film's shameless sentiment almost as meritorious as it is meretricious...
...CLUB Berlin's mix of sentiment and a brash, welcoming wit made him the favorite composer of the people - but maybe not of other top composers. I wonder if he was ever considered a member of their club, of whether he considered himself one. Oh, they were all chummy. Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein were his producers on "Annie Get Your Gun"; he took over from Kern, who had died suddenly. (Twenty years earlier, Rodgers was not so pleased when, at the request of the star Belle Baker, Berlin had written a song for her to interpolate into an otherwise...
...Best Dotcom Survivor With the simplest of business models - matching buyers to sellers and taking a percentage of each completed sale - the online auction powerhouse eBay rode out the wave of antitech sentiment that drowned many other former stars. The company has grabbed about 90% of the online consumer auction market. Almost 38 million registered users can't be wrong...