Word: tyrants
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...contacted. She lives in a Northeastern city with their 90-year-old mother, who has midstage Alzheimer's; he lives far away. When they were kids, brother and sister fought over control. Now in their 60s, they're struggling over, well, control. "To me, he was always a tyrant," she says, "but my mother couldn't see it. He's still the golden boy, even while I put her before myself...
...April 28, 2005: At a press conference, Bush calls Kim Jong Il a "tyrant" and a "dangerous person ... who starves his people." Pyongyang's riposte: the President is a "philistine" and a "hooligan bereft of any personality...
...nemesis, the United States. Pyongyang blasted George W. Bush in a newspaper editorial last week, calling the U.S. President "a first-class war maniac." A top Chinese Foreign Ministry official said the diplomatic taunts, particularly Bush's April comment calling North Korea's Kim Jong Il a "tyrant," had "destroyed the atmosphere" for productive negotiations. But this war of words has been escalating for years...
...Genghis Khan wasn't really a bad guy. He just had bad press." ELBEGDORJ TSAHKIA, Mongolian Prime Minister, announcing an official campaign to refurbish Khan's current image as a brutal tyrant...
...Congress last week that the North may now be capable of putting nuclear warheads atop missiles that can reach Japan and perhaps even America's West Coast. Bush commented: "We don't know if he can or not, but I think it's best when dealing with a tyrant like Kim Jong Il to assume that...