Word: visee
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...Kashmiris are a people in-between, stuck in the vise of a vicious, intractable geopolitical mess, and even when they leave, their fate sometimes follows. Syed Shahnaaz Qadiri decided to move out of Kashmir four years ago. His choice was to go to another state, where the school years start and end on time and students aren't afraid to walk to class. But Qadiri is a Kashmiri Muslim. He chose a college near Ahmadabad, the main city in the western Indian state of Gujarat. Two months ago, a mob of Muslims torched a train carriage near Ahmadabad, killing...
...civilians as far away as Tel Aviv clamored for similar protective gear, it was impossible to forget that Saddam Hussein had used poison gas against Iran and against his own people ... King Hussein of Jordan, who managed to become trapped between Iraq and the tightening economic and military vise the U.S. and its allies were clamping on Saddam, sensed a "world gone mad" ... In the jittery atmosphere, it was not always clear whether events were driving rhetoric, or vice versa...
...legitimate case for Harris' transition from gifted vocalist to artistic voice. Her yearning, lonesome essence has been further distilled in these ineffably sad songs of lost opportunities and broken dreams, especially in the title track, about a woman whose pluck and resilience are not enough to break the vise of bad luck and bad choices. Harris' geographic specificity in telling the story (variations on the refrain "just across the line and a little southeast of Meridian") only intensifies the sense of isolation and loneliness, and in moments such as these her unflinching gaze and lovely, weary delivery carry...
...wonder what happens after Elizabeth Bennett marries Mr. Darcy (after all, he's kind of difficult), but Jane Austen's subsequent novels are variations on a theme, not repetitions of one. With her modern-day version of Pride and Prejudice, on the other hand, Fielding got caught in the vise of a lucrative contract and a punishing deadline, and the new book has an air of desperation. With the same diary format, complete with alcohol and cigarette logs, and the same wacky circle of friends, Bridget seems to be living her own private Groundhog Day, unable to learn from...
Still, by any measure, the prospects for adjustment in Europe are better than those in Japan, which is trapped, as Courtis put it, "in a vise of demographics, deflation and debt." In 1991, he observed, Japanese government debt amounted to 51% of the GNP. In 2001, he warned, the government debt could reach 151% of GNP. Bank loans amount to 145% of GNP. Courtis warned against taking too much solace from last year's anemic 1% Japanese growth rate, which was caused by massive spending and worsened an already dismal fiscal picture. "The Japan of today makes the Italy...