Word: terrorized
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...think all citizens should be vaccinated,” said Daniel Ross-Rieder ’08. “The shortage tells me that, in a time of war against terror when al Qaeda could attack us, the [Bush] administration is not that serious about Homeland Security...
...surplus and appoint new justices to an aging Supreme Court. Four years later, the choice facing American voters is much more complicated. The budget issues sill loom large, and the Supreme Court, unaltered in its membership, is only getting older. But now the United States has a war on terror to fight and an international reputation to recover. In a world Americans now know is hostile and dangerous, and in a country sliding into economic and ideological polarization, there is only one man on the ticket we trust to make sensible decisions in the face of uncertainty: John F. Kerry...
...documentary. The finale revisits the characters three years later to find that receptionist Dawn (Lucy Davis), who previously rejected Tim's last-minute confession of love for fear of upsetting her life plans, has moved with her lunkish fianc to Florida. (The drudgery of routine, and the terror of changing it, is the show's constant theme.) Meanwhile, the power-hungry pip-squeak Gareth (Mackenzie Crook) is now office manager, having replaced the boorish David Brent (writer-producer Ricky Gervais). David complains that his life was ruined by the documentary--a nice touch, since The Office immeasurably changed Gervais' life...
...some aides and rivals say, to enhance the aura of mystery that contributes to his appeal. Says Sheik Haitham Nasrawi, a representative of al-Sadr's father: "When he sits behind closed doors, he is seen as a man who makes no mistakes." But during Saddam's reign of terror, Sistani's seclusion turned into house arrest imposed by the regime. He endured it as a "religious duty to defend the Shi'ites' sacred center," says Tawfiq al-Yassery, a secular Shi'ite politician with close ties to the ayatullah. After Saddam fell, Sistani faced new threats from al-Sadr...
...this passive philosophical notion of our random interconnectedness perverted into a chilling precept of horror. Shimizu makes the most of this, generating tension and genuine terror with a slow, sweeping camera that seems to glide across the traditional Japanese interiors with neither rhyme nor reason; he uses frequent long takes with symbolic tableaux in the foreground and complex interactions occurring in the background. Shimizu takes this potent philosophical notion and maximizes it’s potential for a startling filmic effect; at least, for the first 30 minutes...