Word: afraid
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...highly selective freshman seminar on law and morality. It hadn’t been hard to find Chris; he had a YouTube clip of his talk show interview on his Facebook profile. When I showed up at his Matthews dorm room for an interview in mid-October, I was afraid that he would be wearing a tie. Instead, Chris was dressed in a t-shirt and jeans. He had a bouncy flip of black hair and an easy smile. I thought we would beat around the bush for awhile, but Chris got right to the point. When he was three...
...Liberal" is the kiss of death. In the land of the free, we have silenced half the political voice of this country. They've got us afraid to even use the world liberal. We call ourselves "progressive" now. We've allowed them to take our name away...
...Although the black community has appropriated Obama as a black hero, this does not mean that he cannot be an American hero as well. The two have been considered mutually exclusive for so long that I am afraid people have begun to believe it. But did the fact that Martin Luther King Jr. was a black hero preclude him from being an American hero? Did his achievements as a man mean something only because he was a black man? Are our goals as Americans really so different that a black hero cannot promote the same values as an American hero...
...After the election, relations weren't much better. Truman wrote in his diary on Nov. 11, 1952, that Eisenhower was being coy about cooperating on the transition. "Ike and his advisers are afraid of some kind of trick. There are no tricks ... All I want is to make an orderly turnover. It has never been done...
...which has been a bad sign for the other party.” Galston also said he worries that the Obama campaign’s diverse coalition might pose a challenge to his nascent administration. “Even in the eyes of his own coalition some people are afraid that he wouldn’t go far enough while others think he would go too far,” said Galston. He concluded that the president-elect will have to manage potentially inflated expectations as well as the shift from the “poetry of campaign?...