Word: watcher
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...Pyongyang will likely try to gain the upper hand next year with more brinkmanship, analysts say. "North Korea will deliberately provoke a crisis through a military show of force," predicts Dong Yong Seung, a North Korea watcher at the Samsung Economic Research Institute. The six-party talks between North Korea, the U.S., China, South Korea, Japan and Russia will likely resume, allowing all sides to pretend that the crisis is not a crisis. But there is little optimism the talks will produce results...
...advance. As of Friday, the United Nations reports that 70,000 people have already died in the underfunded, understaffed and undersupplied Sudanese refugee camps. This does not estimate those who have been murdered or left to starve away from the camps—which Eric Reeves, an independent Sudan watcher working from reports by displaced people, claims to be approximately 300,000, as reported recently in the Washington Post. The UN estimates that over 10,000 people could die monthly in the camps without more emergency aid now that nearly two million black Africans have been left homeless...
...figure slipped to 48%, with 46% saying the war was wrong. Those shifts have lifted Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, who now leads Bush by five points in matchups among likely voters, even when third-party candidate Ralph Nader is added to the mix. "Iraq," said a longtime Bush watcher, "is taking its toll...
...eyes of a skull, filled in with pure black, and a thick wood huddles around it. The windows in House at Dusk (1935) are shaded or give onto rooms that are lighted but empty - except for one, where a woman looks out. Who is lonelier, the woman or the watcher looking at her? And what gives his work its unmistakable haunting atmosphere? Hopper himself wasn't much of a guide. He was somewhat reclusive, and discussed his work only in the most general way. He wrote in the catalog for his 1933 retrospective at the Museum of Modern...
...watcher and doesn't really read the newspapers." JIMMY JAM, record producer, claiming Janet Jackson remained unaffected by the furor over her breast-baring Super Bowl stunt...