Word: coldness
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...also evidently learned at the old man's side. His father was a masterly manipulator. The key to Kim senior's success was an iron will and a sense of who his friends were: China and Russia. But with those allies weakened by the end of the cold war, Kim junior has had to look elsewhere. At times since taking over the helm, he has seemed to live up to the worst Western images of him--such as when he "test- fired" a missile over Japan in 1998. In the past year, however, he has begun to open his doors...
...King quickly admits he was a little lost after his father's unexpected death from a heart attack last July at age 70. Hassan II could be cold and arrogant, and Moroccans have long gossiped about his relationship with his heir apparent. Mohammed VI gave rare glimpses in the TIME interview, affectionately calling him "Dad" and following up each mention of his father with the words "God bless his soul." Yet within weeks of assuming power, Mohammed VI took up the delicate task of healing the often bloody national wounds that his father had no small part in opening...
...what so unsettled some continentals. Built from prefabricated modular units, it is perhaps the least homey-looking house $10 million can buy. The walls are lurid yellow and purple here, dead blue-gray there; the Ikea furniture is spare in the extreme. It is Martha Stewart's hell, a cold Bauhaus panopticon riddled with cameras...
...lifetime. Social/ethical debate has become our political theater - infuriating, entertaining, the stuff of tabloids and cable shout-shows. Culture wars sort us into moral tribes. Charlton Heston contemplates the Tribe of the Million Moms, and shakes his flintlock aloft, and roars to his own tribesmen, "Out of my cold, dead hand...
...hard things has been that things just kind of emerge that require my time. I have talked to my predecessors about this. The role of secretary of state in the post-Cold War era requires a much greater assessment of all the issues all over the place. My predecessors had a very difficult and complicated life to live, but they focused primarily on anti-Soviet activities as they played out, and the Middle East. I really do have to show interest in and keep raising questions about places all over the world. Whoever is now secretary of state...