Word: wakes
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...that it is not playing by "the old rules" of politics. That can often include neglecting to establish and enforce the kind of strict rules for conduct and communications that more practiced, buttoned-down campaigns provide. In that respect, the recent troubles of Goolsbee and Power should be a wake-up call to Obama...
...South Ossetia and Abkhazia broke away from Georgia in the 1990s in the wake of bloody ethnic wars. Much as those wars were ignited by the then Nationalist Georgian authorities, Russia fanned the flames by giving a brazen support to the separatists. It was the Russian army that won their wars against Georgia...
...Madrid's Autonomous University, believes the assassination "will certainly have an effect, but perhaps in a different direction than you might expect. Certainly there is a parallel with what happened in the last elections," he says, referring to the surprise ouster of the Popular Party government in the wake of the 2004 Madrid subway bombings. "But the fact that it was a Socialist former councilman who was killed could mobilize Socialist voters. It could bring out voters who otherwise would have stayed at home...
Even if the projections bear out, Mosul still remains a vicious battleground for Iraq, which has seen overall violence fall dramatically in recent months in the wake of the surge. And the city of 1.8 million people continues to vex U.S. military leaders, who have watched its troubles ebb and flow over the years...
...most obviously electric forces in this election, of course, are those of race and gender. After ingesting the January avalanche of pundit speculation in the wake of Iowa and New Hampshire, I too had chalked up my ambivalence about the two candidates to my own race and gender. I simply had to grit my teeth and decide which one was more important to me, which was in more dire need of “change”: my status as a minority or my status as a woman. As the campaign wore on, however, I came to realize that...