Word: threatener
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...Bush administration proposal to reallocate funding for certain financial aid programs could threaten more than $6 million of Harvard’s federal aid if Congress approves the plan...
...chapter of Osama bin Laden's global jihad). The movement's headquarters is in Damascus, which despite its frosty relations with the U.S. remains deeply hostile to al-Qaeda, and its precarious position viz-a-viz U.S. power would make it reluctant to allow its Palestinian "guests" to openly threaten terror attacks on U.S. interests. While the U.S. concurs with Israel in denouncing Hamas as nothing more than a terrorist organization, Sheikh Yassin's group continues to enjoy widespread legitimacy in the Arab world, even among those actively assisting the U.S. war on terror, as an authentic voice of Palestinian...
...Jade Goddess as An Xin, a policewoman who faces an unwanted pregnancy, friction at headquarters and an affair with a drug trafficker (Tse) whom she is assigned to hunt down. Zhao's performance must, and does, show the weight of these dilemmas as they threaten to crush her. The mood on the set was nearly as serious as that in the film, but Zhao says she respects the care Hui took with every element of production. "In the morning, when I'd come to the set, Ann would scrutinize my face and eyes to see if they were bright...
...responded with impressive sangfroid. "He's on vacation," says a top U.N. aide. The aide says Brahimi's plan is to ignore American entreaties to impose a solution and instead let the Iraqis thrash out their differences until they are desperate to compromise. As violence and political bickering threaten to fracture the country, Brahimi's strategy has its merits. --Reported by Massimo Calabresi and Mark Thompson/Washington, Stephan Faris/Karbala, Vivienne Walt/Baghdad and Phil Zabriskie/Tikrit
...federal drug charges that he tried to help a childhood friend buy cocaine in the summer of 2000, one month before he signed a $35.3 million contract with the Ravens; in Atlanta. Indicted as part of a drug-trafficking investigation, Lewis has pleaded not guilty to the charges that threaten to end his NFL career. If convicted, he could face 10 years to life in prison...