Word: nourishment
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...book. When ideas are treated as ends, they can be deep, dignified and enormous; when they are forced to compete with one another in a crass market-place of ideas, they become scrappy, instrumental and unpalatable. My first aim this summer is to quiet their squabbling and nourish each runt with my mental largesse (owing in no small part to the largesse of the Harvard College Research Program). When the fall comes, the weak and infirm shall have to be weeded out; but in the meantime, I’ll luxuriate in the abundance and allow my wascally thoughts...
...current crisis when it admitted it was violating that 1994 deal. If the secret agenda of the Bush Administration is regime change, as Kim fears, then negotiations will be a charade - for both sides. Even if there is room for compromise, the atmosphere may be too poisonous to nourish a deal. Said former U.S. Ambassador to Seoul Stephen Bosworth: "They trust us even less than we trust them...
...expressed in the mildest possible terms: "I have high hopes that the removal of Saddam will strengthen our democratic allies in the region," Senator Joe Lieberman told me last week. He may be right. But there is also a chance that the exact opposite will happen, that war will nourish the Arab mirror fantasy: the fantasy of martyrdom, and a continuing romantic struggle that will only end when "Zionists and Crusaders" are once more expelled from the Holy Land...
...expressed in the mildest possible terms: "I have high hopes that the removal of Saddam will strengthen our democratic allies in the region," Senator Joe Lieberman told me last week. He may be right. But there is also a chance that the exact opposite will happen, that war will nourish the Arab mirror fantasy: the fantasy of martyrdom, and a continuing romantic struggle that will only end when "Zionists and Crusaders" are once more expelled from the Holy Land...
...broadside that he struck a harsh new tone, aligning himself with the advocates of war. "Inspections will not work," he declared, and "it's an open question right now" whether the U.S. would seek further U.N. approval before acting. Yet the Administration is concerned that European resistance could nourish American antiwar sentiment. At the gathering of global elites last week in Davos, Switzerland, Richard Haass, the State Department's director of policy planning, was sent into a packed session to answer questions about whether war was inevitable or necessary. After a rough ride, he acknowledged Bush "has yet to persuade...