Word: sentimentals
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Responding to pressure from firemen wanting their craft portrayed accurately, Travolta voices the general sentiment of the actors, admitting that “it was nice to have that boundary, to have them check us and know when we had to do a scene again because it wasn’t the real...
Agudelo echoed that sentiment, saying that bicycle security “is not about making your bike impossible to steal, but about deterrence...
...blocked agreement on the European Constitution at a Brussels summit, rejecting a proposal that would have reduced Spain's voting weight. Zapatero embraced a similar proposal in June, and has vowed to hold one of Europe's first national referendums on the constitution in February. Spain's strong popular sentiment for the E.U., which has contributed massively to the country's climb to prosperity over the last two decades, makes a positive result all but assured. Even the Popular Party is counselling a yes vote. Yet Spain's relations with the Continent's two biggest states might not always...
...superior to Moqtada Sadr's rag-tag Mehdi army, which is composed largely of unemployed young toughs from the Shiite urban ghettoes. The difference between them on the battlefield, however, is based on morale and confidence - in other words, on motivation. The Sadrists are motivated by a strong nationalist sentiment and emboldened by a religious faith both in the righteousness of their cause and the celestial rewards of their "martyrdom." So too are the Sunni insurgents. And thus far, efforts to deploy Iraqi units in the frontline of pitched battles at both Fallujah and Najaf have proven largely ineffective...
Indeed, most Islamic experts condemn the hostage murders for the same reason that--anti-American sentiment aside--they condemned the Sept. 11 attacks: the Prophet's prohibition on killing noncombatants, or, as he put it, "a woman or a child, or a hermit, a farmer plowing his field, [or] a person who is not carrying a weapon against you." Says Ingrid Mattson, vice president of the Islamic Society of North America: "Other than from the spokesmen for these different terrorist groups, everything I've heard is a complete rejection" of the beheadings. Scholars at Cairo's venerable al-Azhar seminary...