Word: wanderings
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...their personal losses. Baghdad, filled first with rejoicing, then recriminations, after Saddam's fall, has shifted now to bearing witness. People gather at prison gates to review their life inside, a diet of torture and starvation. Shiites describe the secular indignities imposed by Saddam. And families of the missing wander from prisoner welfare groups to empty government offices in search of answers they dared not ask when the Sunni regime was still in power...
...confidence and aristocratic manner can come across as arrogance, especially when he's out cultivating popular support. As he stood in Nasiriyah last week listening to farmers and teachers detailing their complaints and needs, his gaze would wander over their shoulders. To detractors, especially in the State Department and the CIA, he's an opportunist, a shameless self-promoter and an embezzler. He opened a bank in Jordan that grew into the country's second largest, then was expropriated by the Jordanian government in the late '80s amid charges of fraud. Chalabi was convicted in absentia by a Jordanian military...
...them throwing back there, so I’d just wander over there with my dad, and I’d watch them,” Hendricks says. “My dad had gotten me one of those big bats, so I liked...
...president has repeatedly claimed that America’s commitment to peace and prosperity in Iraq will be as great as its current commitment to regime change. But his record in Afghanistan shows that when the last bombs have fallen, this president’s mind tends to wander, and commitments made to starving people give way to tax cuts and new military adventures. If we want a lasting peace and a country that is not hated around the world, the American people must ensure that Iraq is not forgotten as Afghanistan has been. Afghanistan’s return...
...outside," their commander appealed to a couple of them who seemed ready to wander off. My own attempt at low-profile maintenance foundered soon after. Our four-wheel-drive with "TV" written on the roof and hood didn't help. One of the Americans swore quietly, and I was invited to leave. I parked across the road...