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...what accounts for the discrepancy between the admiration she inspires among such voters and the kind of blogosphere and talk-radio slurs that prompted the New Yorker, even if in jest, to run its notorious cover cartoon of her standing with her husband in the Oval Office, sporting an Afro and an AK-47. "I've realized that there are two conversations that go on," she said. "There's one at the punditry level - the polls, the writers, the folks in the know, they have one set of conversations - and then there's what's happening on the ground. Early...
...opponents, all veterans of previous races, include Afro-dude Machine Gun Joe (Tyrese Gibson), the neo-Nazi Pachenko (Max Ryan), an ex-NASCAR, now NAStyCAR driver named Travis (Justin Mader) and the martial-artistic 14K (Robin Shou). When they're not playing bumper cars, they're taunting one another or spitting in a rival's food - animals marking their turf. Each driver is given a navigator, a babe on loan from a nearby women's prison, and Ames's is Case (Natalie Martinez), who has pneumatic skills of her own. Sitting next to him in their two-seater Ford Mustang...
...find, say, a film on Northern Ireland's Troubles that is sympathetic to its English occupiers, or an Israeli film hostile to the Palestinians. This year, Hunger, the story of IRA leader Bobby Sands' fatal hunger strike in 1981, won the Camera d'Or (debut film) prize for Afro-Irish director Steve McQueen; and Waltz With Bashir, an animated documentary about Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman's sense of guilt over the Sabra and Shatila massacres of Palestinian refugees in 1982, was one of the critical favorites in the main competition, though Penn's jury gave it no award...
...Wright became head of Trinity, a church on a hardscrabble strip of Chicago's South Side with barely 90 members. The church adopted the slogan "Unashamedly Black and Unapologetically Christian." A light-brown-skinned man with an Afro, Wright regularly wore dashikis, and laced his Sunday sermons with a level of political rhetoric that over the years has often proved too political for some African Americans. Nevertheless, Trinity's congregation grew to some 8,000 (Oprah Winfrey and the rapper Common have attended services there). Wright's prominence in Chicago soon gained him national attention and won him entry into...
...Continents have become classifications of convention, rather than strict geography. If continents were simply “continuous bodies of land,” as defined in the Oxford English Dictionary, there would be only four—America, Antarctica, Afro-Eurasia, and Australia. Since that is not the case, it is clear that “continent” now includes national political borders, language isoglosses, and historical circumstances. For example, although Greenland is physically closer to North America, it is a Danish province, and thus a part of the European continent...