Word: yearning
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...have a conversation without quoting a line from a Hollywood hit or a show tune, as if cinema were the grand sum of all the world's philosophy. Movies and politics are also melded together. Even with Estrada gone, movie stars still want to be politicians, and politicians yearn for their close up. The President copied her look and her camera poses from a doll-sized Filipina actress, Nora Aunor, whom she resembles...
Meanwhile, the culture of high schools is changing in a more subtle way. A kind of psychological arms race has broken out. Some teenagers identify with the killers and yearn for the attention they receive. These kids make lists of their enemies, set up websites memorializing Harris and Klebold, even warn they will "pull a Columbine." But a much larger group of teens is ever more watchful, ready to report any threat, no matter how ludicrous it sounds. It's unclear what kind of people graduate from high schools where some kids hurt so much they want to kill, while...
Russia is still far from a healthy free market. But Browder is determined to persevere. His battles in Russia's unbridled market have pushed him to the vanguard of investors, both foreign and native, who yearn for a rule of law in Russia. Of course, not everyone in the country is ready to fight fair. But Bill Browder is prepared to keep his guard up and go the distance...
...There is no such thing as a perfect census or a perfect vote count - whether you do it by machine or hand or personal visits with candy and flowers. The Democrats yearn for something close to the Platonic ideal of counting everybody, whereas the Republicans are more laissez-faire about it; their attitude is, those who don't care to be counted, or don't bother to punch a hole with any precision, don't really deserve to be counted. Their notion is, You've got to earn that franchise by at least following instructions. The Democrats response...
...girding for a potential shortage of heating oil this winter, and European governments are trying to contain protests over the price of petrol. But Chavez boisterously reminded everyone that the supplier of 42% of the world's most precious commodity has the kind of leverage a superpower might yearn for. And by the way, the ex-paratrooper argued, rather than blame OPEC for threatening the global economic boom, the West should look closer to home--at high fuel taxes, market speculators, lagging refining capacity and a Christmas list of other ills...