Word: wakefulness
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...image-makers as a political prop. During the Cold War, the city was the proving ground of the East-West conflict, the principal theater in the struggle between freedom and authoritarianism. Truman made the first presidential visit to postwar Berlin, driving through the ruins of the city in the wake of the Allied bombardment. The Allies' refusal to abandon the city to the Soviets, demonstrated most dramatically during the Berlin airlift of 1948, endeared a generation of Berliners to the U.S. When Kennedy arrived in Berlin in 1962, the city was gripped by something approaching mass hysteria; Kennedy later confided...
...tribes to take collective responsibility for the actions of their members. Justice follows the tribal code and is meted out by clan elders who consult in public gatherings called jirgas. It was an imperfect solution to a difficult problem. But when al-Qaeda leaders fled Afghanistan in the wake of the 2001 war on their Taliban hosts and took refuge in the tribal areas, it became downright dangerous...
...pragmatic side fills that screen, those loyal foot soldiers who got used to seeing their own reflections are beginning to cry betrayal. The people in Obama's movement feel they have an open line directly to him, and these days many want their objections heeded. "It's a wake-up call on how much wiggle room he has," says presidential scholar Stephen Hess...
...mortgages (the first step in the foreclosure process), forecasts Moody's Economy.com That's double last year's number and amounts to 6% of all U.S. mortgages. The fear is that mass foreclosures could accelerate price declines, bringing on a cascade of additional foreclosures and economic trouble in their wake. "I get this sense in an increasing number of markets around the country that this death spiral is developing," says Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody's Economy.com and an outspoken advocate of doing more to combat foreclosures...
...inspired to write this because of the tsunami of December '06. In the wake of that there was all this bloviating by religious people from imams to leading evangelicals about whether there was some sin that people were being punished for where the tsunami struck. What struck me is that there was this assumption that God must be all good and all-powerful. For a long time on earth humans didn't worship good Gods; that's a new idea. The ancient Greek Gods, the Hindu Gods, are fairly amoral, most of them. We get stuck when we insist that...