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...little more than a month ago, insiders were saying the Dean movement had all the resonance of a temper tantrum. Even activist Democrats, the line went, would eventually come to their senses and realize that this antiwar one-noter from liberal Vermont was out of synch with the politics of a post-9/11 world. And what about the Internet-driven rabble that packs his events, those 68,000 who have signed up for yet another of Dean's "Meetup" events at 340 spots across the country this Wednesday? Too young, too alienated, too inchoate to matter...
...left the gathering the sheik heard mutterings from young men and responded with, what to us seemed a baffling and melodramatic temper tantrum, casting his headdress on the ground, covering his head with ashes from an outside grill while the dismayed young men rushed to reassure him. My interpreter later explained that the youths said they should kill the foreigners, Kurdish interpreter included, rather than ask for their help. Unaware of this at the time, we headed for the Tikrit bridge with a negotiator from the tribe. I stayed with the man whose name I have lost, while he talked...
NORTH KOREA The Tantrum Continues After weeks of tough talk, President George W. Bush softened his position in hopes of resolving the nuclear standoff with North Korea. Bush said that if North Korea stopped making atomic weapons he would consider a "bold initiative" to provide energy and food to the country - the first time Washington has signaled its willingness to engage Pyongyang. A belligerent response, however, indicated that North Korea is not interested in retreating from the brinkmanship that has led it to kick out international nuclear inspectors and withdraw from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. A Foreign Ministry spokesman said...
...Frankfurter Professor of Pettiness Alex Dershkowitz threw a girly tantrum at the Loews Boston Common Theater when he couldn’t get in to a screening of the new Bond movie. Dershkowitz’s resemblance to the ticketless guy in those moronic Fandango commercials was noted by 60 percent of observers. His status as a somehow more threatening version of the Satanic leprechaun in the Leprechaun movies was noted...
...this reason, parents of bipolar kids are urged to enforce sleep schedules firmly and consistently. Bedtime must mean bedtime, and morning must mean morning. While that can be hard when an actively manic child is still throwing a tantrum two hours after lights-out, a combination of mood-stabilizing drugs and an enforced routine may even bring some of the most symptomatic kids into line. Teens, who are expected to do a lot more self-policing than younger children, must take more of this responsibility on themselves, even if that means a no-excuses adherence to a no-exceptions curfew...