Word: tug-of-war
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...Michigan Sen. Carl Levin and Rhode Island Sen. Jack Reed certainly hope so. In this week's congressional tug-of-war over Iraq policy, their amendment to the defense spending bill - the latest version of one they've introduced four times before - has the best chance of ultimately winning the 60 votes required to give it a fuller Senate consideration. Finding 60 votes this time around is unlikely. But it is steadily gaining support...
...great-great-great-great- great-great-great-great-granddaughter, will be present to celebrate the occasion. But it's worth remembering that Jamestown was a giant gamble. The trials were severe, the errors numerous, the losses colossal, the gains, eventually, great. Life in Jamestown was a three-way tug-of-war between daily survival, the settlers' own preconceptions and the need to adapt to a new world. Jamestown did not invent America, but in its will to survive, its quest for democracy, its exploitation of both Indians and slaves, it created the template for so many of the struggles...
...esprit de corps quite startling to someone who has spent too much time around Middle Eastern armies. "We hope for the best but prepare for the worst," said Colonel Advitya Madan, the unit's commander, as he served tea with the battalion silver, which also includes tug-of-war trophies from the 1930s. Then he went off to drill the battalion, which was waiting on the parade ground in full dress uniform, in preparation for a medal ceremony to be held several weeks away...
...current ubiquity of the runny egg, however, isn't just due to Spanish influences and the greenmarket movement, which fetishizes purity and simplicity. It benefited from the other major 21st century food trend: high-tech cooking equipment. There is a quiet tug-of-war going on in restaurant kitchens between Luddites and chemists, with chefs pretending to be both--pumping locally grown organic raspberries into foam with a canister of nitrous oxide. But I think you need to pick sides. Either you want to mess with stuff, or you don't. And the egg--in its wimpy little shell...
...What matters is that when North Korea pressed, U.S. negotiators squirmed. Now there is an unseemly tug-of-war in Washington, with State Department officials wheedling Treasury counterparts to let up, just a bit, on their international campaign against counterfeiting and money laundering, so that a charter member of the Axis of Evil can be lured back to the six-party table. The outcome is still uncertain. If Pyongyang does get its frozen millions back, and the past is prologue, Kim will pocket the money, then detonate another nuke at the time and place of his choosing. He understands that...