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...Online, the explosion of self-published weblogs revealed a community as divided and outspoken as in the angry-white-male '90s. Architects last summer released their first proposals for rebuilding the World Trade Center site--and the designs were quickly smacked down by the public as too blah and timid; a more adventurous set of plans, replete with soaring towers and sky gardens, was unveiled in December. During its second season, the terrorism drama 24 planted a nuclear bomb in Los Angeles. The Sopranos showed how quickly tragedy can become a banal, catchall excuse, as mobster Tony Soprano phonily blamed...
...established by 2005. Publishing the road map might help the U.S. convince Arab opinion that it was genuine in its desire to see a democratic Palestine. But at the urging of the Israeli government, the paper has been kept under wraps. An Administration that is so timid in its policies should not be surprised if the price is a loss of respect...
...Students talk about grading, TFs and professors, but when it comes to talking to the administration, students are rather timid,” he said.He said he intends to collect comments from his site and organize them into a plan that he can present to the administration for immediate consideration and action...
Gore has been marching leftward into treacherous issue terrain. His speech on the economy nine days after he spoke out on Iraq was timid and unfocused, sidestepping the question of how to respond to Bush's tax cut. Gore now tells TIME that he would "scrap the whole thing and start over," with less dramatic cuts aimed at the middle class. Last week he startled an audience in Manhattan with the revelation that as the country copes with a health-care system in crisis, he has "reluctantly" come to support a radical idea that has long been a liberal dream...
...hard worker,” Merchant said. “He’s been working hard to try to pick everything up. At this point, three weeks into our practices, he’s really starting to find his niche. … He came in a little timid, but … he’s relaxed and he’s going to be a guy who can really shoot the ball...