Word: warriors
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...young friend had vanished. "He has gone to the other side," some said. Others assumed he was one of the "disappeared," meaning someone picked up for questioning by Indian security troops. In either case, he is probably dead. Back in the old days before he became a jihad warrior, he had also been a fan of the actor Shahrukh Khan. "Does Khan know how to use all those guns?" he once asked me. I had no idea, but I answered anyway. "Rubbish," I said. "Toys. All make believe." Whatever his fate, he surely found that guns are painfully real...
...term observers of the region wouldn't be at all surprised if Sharon begins by making some dramatic gesture toward the Palestinians, such as lifting the closure of the West Bank and Gaza that has been in force throughout most of the current intifada. Indeed, as a longtime counterinsurgency warrior, his approach may be to shift Israeli strategy toward punishing Palestinian leaders rather than the entire Palestinian population, as a way of isolating them from their own supporters. And sending positive messages to the Palestinians, as well as the neighboring Arab regimes and Washington, would even help him consolidate...
...pulpit. But to make policy in the Senate, he had to cajole and flatter fellow Senators--skills Ashcroft had never mastered. He could also be hard to pin down ideologically: he fought for flex time for workers and cutting regressive payroll taxes. Ashcroft's greatest liability, says a Republican warrior working on his defense, "is the rigidity. There are issues on which there is no other hand. That is what may catch some people up short...
Some of Doyle's ideas have the imprint of sanity. Being the commanding, demanding warrior goddess may work in the office, she argues, but you should leave her there and treat your husband like a friend and grownup. "Honor his choice of socks and stocks, food and friendships, art and attitudes...have regard for his ideas, suggestions, family and work," she writes. There is a lot to be said for apologizing, for walking away rather than escalating an argument. And Doyle, like many therapists, urges women to do nice things for themselves and build on their interests and friendships outside...
XENA No, not the Warrior Princess, but still perhaps a superhero in her own right. Xena is a female piglet cloned from fetal-pig skin cells, and she may prove to be more than the latest addition to the biotech clone farm. Because of similarities between porcine and human organs, the techniques that made Xena may eventually create a supply of genetically modified pig livers that would be acceptable to the human immune system...