Word: sit
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...with the government, refusing to speak to them would have left the tigers of Burma on their own, defenseless. On this issue, at least, engagement yields far more than isolation - and Rabinowitz deserves credit for a political courage no less real than his physical bravery, for being willing to sit down with the devil, occasionally, to save a tiger...
...other age groups. 2003’s 200,000 person-strong march against the War in Iraq doesn’t compare to the half-a-million-person 1969 and 1971 demonstrations against Vietnam . Marches on Washington Mall, it seems, have been replaced by Facebook groups and lunch counter sit-ins by Product [Red] T-shirts...
...obviously your operation changed a lot, first phase to second phase. What were the good things about the second phase? I think I'm better with a leaner kind of campaign. Less bureaucracy, more quick to react. Close friends. I always enjoy when we all sit down together, and [say] like, "what are we to do?" And everybody talks, and everybody argues. Somebody gets mad, and then we all come to an agreement of what we oughta do. I enjoy that a lot. It helps me enormously to help to think things through. To have people that are basically...
...face it, given the opportunity, Iran would take the Gulf and its oil, the only reason we care about that miserable body of water. Sixty per cent of the world's reserves sit underneath its shores, and 17 million barrels of crude oil exports pass daily through the Strait of Hormuz. Should the Iranians ever find themselves in a position to close it, Americans would pay for a gallon of gas - what, $10? It's no wonder that Iran's Revolutionary Guards decided on Hormuz to draw a line in the sand...
...lawyers' protests last summer. But the PPP is a family firm. It was created by Bhutto's father, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who ran the country from 1971 to '77 and was executed by military ruler Zia in 1979. The decision to anoint Bilawal, says Haqqani, "will sit very well with the PPP base because he is the son of a martyr and the grandson of a martyr...