Word: soft
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...says Obama's task is more fundamental: redefine the Afghan strategy as part of an overhaul of U.S. global security policy, and one that gives credence to the 'soft power' of persuasion that Europe is more comfortable with. "Europeans need to feel the Afghan strategy can succeed," Asmus says. "And if the political will exists, then they will feel it is a worthwhile risk, and not just an effort to placate the Americans...
...annoying—qualities that too many young American actors possess.When our heroes reach their late teens, Patel, Pinto, and Mittal take over. The three are barely known in India and even less so in America, but each delivers a raw, engaging performance—particularly Patel, whose soft, downtrodden work sharply contrasts with the exuberance of his younger counterpart. His understated delivery works wonders—it’s a natural statement on disappointment and longing. Pinto has already been labeled by Entertainment Weekly as a new breakout star, and with good reason. She’s extraordinarily...
Except for the soft hydraulic whir of expectations being raised, the first week of the Obama transition was a quiet one. Indeed, the big news came from neither Chicago nor Washington but from Detroit and Beijing. In Detroit, General Motors - the stupendously clueless automaker - begged for a bailout lest it go bankrupt, thereby raising the question: If our resources are limited, why should we invest in the failed corporate past rather than in the technologies of the future? The obvious answer was to protect jobs. But how long would those jobs last without a significant overhaul of the company...
...political leaders are busy culling votes. Writing in the weekly magazine Outlook, Congress party member Abhishek Manu Singhvi pounced immediately, writing, "[The BJP] claims to be a mainstream political party - with its direct members and associates directly linked to terrorism. It gives us homilies on terror and calls us soft on terror, while allowing its own philosophy to preach terror and its own activists to commit terror." The BJP has hinted at a conspiracy by the ruling government to frame the accused for political gains. "A terrorist is a terrorist irrespective of his religion or caste. The BJP objects...
...Despite the bashing they had received in the campaign from John McCain for being soft on Russia, Obama and his advisers decided not to push back against Medvedev. They issued no statement on the record or on background about the Medvedev announcement. Instead, Obama politely returned Medvedev's congratulatory Nov. 8 phone call and laid out for his Russian counterpart his own view of the U.S.-Russia agenda. Aides say Obama and Medvedev discussed substantive issues in the call, but missile defense didn't come up. The Russian President responded positively to Obama's understated reaction. "The Russians were very...