Word: terrorized
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...candidates. The endless political campaign has produced a permanent class of political journalists (or perhaps it's the other way around). Many are just as wise as the business journalists, but they devote their wisdom to the minutiae of campaign strategy and are mystified to the point of terror about economics...
...danger isn't the British way. After suicide bombings in July 2005, Londoners continued working and socializing. Yet a survey by kids' charity TS Rebel found that last year more than a fifth of Britons avoided going out at night rather than risk encounters with a different form of terror: groups of children. Britons are frightened of their own young...
...show is an unsettling weave of smart-ass wit and surreal situations from the age of terror. A joke involving communion and oral sex shares a platform with the calculation that al-Qaeda would have to blow up 580 planes a year to compete with the tobacco industry for casualties. This month, an audio version of the show, which has shocked Christian conservatives and delighted fans from Edinburgh to Lahore, was launched on iTunes. E-audiences might miss the comedian's crown of thorns and Gitmo-orange jumpsuit, but that's not dire, as the show, he says...
...profoundly Christian message." "A lot of Christians are so resentful that Bush is hijacking the language of Jesus to do these awful things," he says. "I'm fairly sure that telling jokes about God isn't as blasphemous as torturing his children." For an age-of-terror comic like Bowman, the best jokes make for nervous laughter...
...everyone is convinced that Musharraf's departure and negotiating with the militants is going to solve all of Pakistan's problems. "Musharraf should not leave the presidency immediately," says Islamabad-based businessman Khalid Ibrahim. "Otherwise, this [new] leadership can play havoc with the war on terror and economic prosperity of the country by negotiating with the terrorists. World powers are comfortable with Musharraf and they want him to stay. If he goes maybe they will stop giving financial aid to Islamabad...