Word: sentimentals
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Since Kashmir erupted in 1989, India has pointed a blunt and unwavering finger at Pakistan, accusing its neighbor of fomenting the entire problem. It's a large and cynical exaggeration: anti-Indian sentiment runs high within Kashmir, and in the first half of the 1990s, Kashmiris themselves provided the steam in the anti-Indian militant movement. They were disorganized and willing to murder, but passionate and anxious to plead their nationalist cause with the outside world...
...First, Indonesia has enough turmoil to deal with, from separatist movements to communal massacres. President Megawati Sukarnoputri rules atop an unwieldy coalition of interests, and the last thing she wants to be known for is a reckless crackdown on Islamic groups. "Megawati's government is afraid of arousing Muslim sentiment if anyone is taken in without enough proof," says Hamid Basyaib, a researcher at the Akasara Foundation think tank. And many of those Islamic groups have friends or even founders in high places in the government and the army...
...McClintock's 1928 recording of "Big Rock Candy Mountain." Not only is there "You Are My Sunshine" and "Keep on the Sunny Side," but "Man of Constant Sorrow" takes on an increasingly jaunty tone with each reprise, as if to affirm that the best thing about that purely American sentiment called the blues is singing them...
...Civility is not a tactic or a sentiment," Bush said. "It is the determined choice of trust over cynicism, of community over chaos. And this commitment, if we keep it, is a way to shared accomplishment." He mentioned the word civil or civility half-a-dozen times; and he'll have his work cut out for him in trying to achieve...
...forces to form "Stop Ashcroft," a campaign to "educate the American public, the media and the United States Senate about Senator Ashcroft's relevant public record." They're hoping, organizers say, to characterize Ashcroft's ideology as far to the right of mainstream America's - and to underscore the sentiment that by nominating Ashcroft, Bush flew in the face of every "compassionate" promise he made on the campaign trail...