Word: tamed
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...role and rights in the world becoming its central theme. That would count as a national service, if the candidates could get past the flamethrowing and lay out for the public the instincts that guide them, the hopes that they hold and the best tools to tame the fears that keep them awake at night. --Reported by Perry Bacon Jr., John F. Dickerson, Karen Tumulty and Douglas Waller/Washington
...were trying to solve a problem," says Russell. "We didn't really care what the reaction would be. They hate our guts. There wasn't any support to erode." Those methods, he says, "worked. We'll go home victors." But whether Russell's rough stuff or gentler handling can tame the country in the long run has yet to be proved...
...other cars prowling around. And as the sun sank, accompanied by the snapping and cracking of branches, elephants - singly at first, then in tens, then in hundreds - came to the Minneriya Tank (one of Sri Lanka's major reservoirs) to drink, bathe and play. There are plenty of tame and tethered elephants in Sri Lanka - just the previous night in Kandy , we had seen 80 of them paraded at the Kandy Perahera, the country's biggest religious festival. But nothing beats the sight of the behemoths in their natural state. The beasts at Minneriya knew neither the mahouts' steely prods...
...time, the defense will say Stewart didn't lie. The judge, meanwhile, is giving the prosecution little leeway to prove Stewart committed securities fraud by misleading her investors about her ImClone actions. To rehabilitate her credibility, she may take the stand, which could make last week's drama look tame by comparison...
...ordinary Russians, the scenes of carnage were numbingly familiar, yet another reminder of how dangerous the country has become since President Vladimir Putin came to power. While Putin has imposed draconian curbs on the media and created a tame Parliament, he has not been able to pacify Chechnya, the breakaway republic whose separatists were swiftly blamed for the subway bombing. In 1999 Putin, then a new and little-known Prime Minister, made his name by ordering the reinvasion of Chechnya. Military commanders promised a speedy victory; instead, a radical, fundamentalist wing of the guerrilla movement has brought...