Word: southernization
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...without government help. I said 'What do you want?' They said, Send us 100 men or give us resources for 100 men in the district. And we did that. Till today it is the strongest of districts. We wanted to do the same in every district in the southern parts of the country. Or where we had borders with Pakistan. Where we have done that we are secure. Where we didn't do that we are not secure. That's a much easier problem...
...best-case scenario for George Reeves would have been a car dealership in the San Fernando Valley. You know, one of those gigs where he could have donned an old Superman cape and done silly commercials - once all the rage on late-night TV in Southern California - in which he promised to make fabulous trade-ins faster than a speeding bullet...
...harbinger of a wider regional meltdown. The irony was that terrorism thrived more readily in the new Middle Eastern democracies than in the bad old dictatorships. It was no coincidence that, outside Iraq, the terrorist organizations causing the most trouble in the region were operating out of southern Lebanon and the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories of Gaza and the West Bank. In all those places, elections had been held. Yet those who won them--Hizballah in Lebanon and Hamas in the occupied territories--were historically terrorist organizations...
...Democratic candidate owed his victory, above all, to the return of the economy to the top of the political agenda. To most Americans, the key issue in 2008 was--as it had been when another Southern Democrat won the presidency 16 years previously--"the economy, stupid." Some experts argued that the economy had never stopped mattering. Bush won in 2000 because the dotcom bubble burst that year. He won in 2004 because his tax cuts and the easy-money policies of Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan had generated a sustained economic recovery. Unfortunately for the Republicans, that recovery could...
...Snakes on a Plane and The Guardian. But the Phat Band has become a cause for him, if not quite a career. After all, with his exuberant, missionary zeal, he is advancing a vital tradition. At a Phat Band concert a year ago at the Santa Monica Pier in Southern California, one appreciative listener was the venerated arranger-composer Johnny Mandel, 80, who wrote for the likes of Basie, Herman and Artie Shaw. "You," Mandel told Goodwin after the show, "are where Big Band writing is today...