Word: ways
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...after turning up his nose at Washington during the first Bush administration - calling it "Disneyland East" - he says he's ready to move in and get to work on health-care reform, welfare reform and bio-technology. "I am absolutely passionate about these issues," Thompson said Friday by way of introduction...
...Throughout the '60s and early '70s, the visual and verbal vocabulary of the strip was one of the only languages that kept both the younger and older generation fluent with each other. Schulz's phrase "security blanket," and his ideas about that most American of concepts, happiness, found their way into Webster's dictionary and "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations." The names and subversive attributes of his characters filtered into the counterculture of the '60s; the Grateful Dead's defiantly grubby organist, Ron McKernan, was nicknamed Pig Pen; another San Francisco rock band that formed in 1966 called itself Sopwith Camel...
...sight in 75 countries throughout Europe, South America, Africa, Australia and Asia. The Times of London called them "international icons of good faith" - perhaps not surprising for a cartoonist with a Dickensian gift for characterization. At all levels of society "Peanuts" had a profound and lasting influence on the way people saw themselves and the world in the second half of the 20th century...
...hiding out in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan, and that country's ruling Taliban militia has no intention of handing him over despite new U.N. sanctions. A finding tying Bin Laden to the Cole attack will, of course, beg the question of U.S. retaliation. But there's no easy way of striking back at an adversary with few fixed assets. President Clinton's 1998 cruise missile strikes on Afghanistan and the Sudan were, at best, a singularly ineffective response and at worst played right into Bin Laden's hands by anointing him the most feared enemy...
...Bush Challenge: To come up with ways of combating the Bin Laden threat that project toughness without succumbing to the temptation to grandstand. More important, to recognize that Bin Laden's influence is growing in an Arab political context where hostility to the U.S. is widespread, and to begin to address that political problem. The way to beat Bin Laden is to isolate him, which requires active support in the Arab world...