Word: truceful
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...proteges in North Korea are just as bloody-minded. Over the decades since their invasion of the South was beaten back, the North Koreans have sent down waves of assassins and saboteurs, seized warships and cargo vessels at sea, blown up at least one civilian airliner, hacked U.S. truce guards to death with axes and committed other barbarities without the slightest sign of self-doubt. After Kim Il Sung died in 1994, his son and apparent successor Kim Jong Il displayed the same steely confidence in his own political correctness. So last September, when a North Korean submarine ran aground...
...week in the Jabalia refugee camp, the resulting deaths had to be blamed on Israel - to avoid embarrassment and accusations of hurting the Palestinian people. That also afforded an excuse to hit Israel. Hamas pulled back after a few days and ordered its men to once again observe the truce, however, because it didn't want to be blamed by ordinary Palestinians for drawing the Israelis back into Gaza. On the streets of Gaza, there's a palpable air of celebration - with an undertone of aggression - and to spoil that would hurt Hamas's standing...
...sagging approval ratings, the public displeasure at events in Iraq and his inability to win support for his Social Security plan suggest that Bush doesn't have the leverage he once did: he could not afford a nominee so toxic to Democrats that the move would unravel the truce struck by a bipartisan group of 14 Senators and possibly trigger a filibuster...
...promising. Given the failure of previous agreements, the newest treaty seems unlikely to produce a lasting cease-fire. While the agreement seeks to redress the balance of power between Muslims and Maronite Christians, the traditionally dominant Maronites are reluctant to give up their privileges. Indeed, just days after the truce went into effect gunmen opened fire on the car of Assad Shaftari, a key Maronite participant in the Syrian-sponsored peace talks. Shaftari narrowly escaped. His supporters have accused Christians who back President Amin Gemayel of staging the attack. Gemayel, who has yet to endorse the treaty, flew to Damascus...
...forced to confront the radically foreign-even alien-realities of death, technology, urban life and each other. Whitman could embrace those realities-this is the guy who wrote, "I am large, I contain multitudes." The rest of us can only hope to eke out an uneasy daily truce with them...