Word: concernments
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...plausibility is the concern of the 9/11 Commission, not of audiences looking for an exciting time at a February popcorn picture. Their vantage point isn't above the action, where they can dispassionately parse the plot and solve the mystery. It's behind the wheel of Dennis Quaid's churning vehicle, which sends innocent pedestrians sprawling as he pursues the bad guys. He's Mel Gibson as Madman Martin Briggs, and he's not in a sophisticated political parable like The Manchurian Candidate but the latest unofficial remake of Lethal Weapon...
...officials openly questioned the Serbian government's lax security measures at the U.S. and other embassies, several of which have been attacked in the past week and suggested that some government ministers were inciting Serbs to violence. "We have made known to the Serbian government our concern and displeasure that their police force did not prevent this incident," Dana Perino , spokesperson for President George W. Bush said, while other U.S. officials blasted Belgrade's "completely inadequate" security precautions...
...Democrats looking to November, the concern, says Stein, is that Obama's appeal emanates from "outside the center and dangerously close to the extreme" compared to presumptive G.O.P. candidate John McCain, whose appeal comes from the center. However, that kind of calculation doesn't matter to Bruce Elfant, a local Austin official, member of the State Democratic Executive Committee and an ardent Obama supporter. Clinton can win the presidency, he believes, but if she does her popular mandate will be no more than 51% and he says that is not a big enough margin to bring real change to Washington...
...other NGOs to set up shop in Iraq rather than work remotely in neighboring Jordan. It is necessary, he says, "if we want this current security leading to tangible sustainability." His point was echoed during the recent visit by Angelina Jolie, a U.N. goodwill ambassador, when she expressed concern for the millions of Iraqis affected by the war and stated a need for "a real presence here to help count the people and register the people" displaced by the conflict...
...groups are also hard-pressed to come to a country where a large percentage of budgets must go to protecting foreigners. It is also of deep concern that humanitarian projects cannot be easily monitored because of a lack of security. For the handful of foreign NGOs currently in Baghdad the situation is frustrating, they say, because of the lack of direct contact with their Iraqi beneficiaries. "You are dependent on secondhand information - you could be in Amman or Washington or Paris," says Guy Siri, who says he can count the number of international aid agencies in Baghdad on one hand...