Word: temperal
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...days in the slum of Cité Soleil, a square mile crammed with 200,000 people and unmanageable crime outside Haiti's capital of Port-au-Prince. Charles, the owner of a soccer team, says his kidnappers never bothered with disguise. "I'm a big guy with a bad temper, but I kept my cool. They had guns bigger than me. They have lots of them," he says. The ring has hundreds of collaborators, including teenagers, and they get what they want. Charles shelled out several thousand dollars for freedom, but his was one of many payoffs. On the average...
...agree with because you think it needs more rich people. The poor are overrepresented among prison inmates, but you don’t hear anybody suggesting that every liberal grab a gun and off a cop. On the other hand, I understand the argument that liberals should temper their criticism of the military because of the difficult circumstances and decisions that lead so many soldiers to military service. Liberals should be sensitive to the difficulties faced by many soldiers. But the question of militarism is too important for liberals to pull their punches out of a misplaced sense of class...
...Middle East through the lens of the world’s—particularly America’s—addiction to oil without offering easy answers. Such abstractions and complexities seem to authentically reflect the atmosphere of the post-Sept. 11, 2001 world, where political and moral tensions temper our economic relationship with other nations.Written and directed by Stephen Gaghan, “Syriana” is a gritty film that traces oil corruption from the golden deserts of the Persian Gulf to Capitol Hill. Gaghan, Oscar winner for his screenplay for “Traffic...
...Arkansas state troopers, Larry Patterson and Roger Perry, assigned to Clinton's security detail in the 1980s. They picture the Clintons as a pinstripe Jiggs and Maggie -- him often tiptoeing home past midnight, her sometimes greeting him on his return with a mouthful of four-letter words and a temper that Patterson says once resulted in a smashed cupboard door. Their relationship, author David Brock wrote, ''is more a business relationship than a marriage.'' As to the working methods of Clinton's alleged womanizing, Perry and Patterson claim he sometimes visited mistresses when he was supposed to be out jogging...
...Every time Walter (John Goodman) loses his temper. (Have UHS on standby...