Word: argumentativeness
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...just because Obama is half-black and half-white; it's because he is neither typically black (he comes out of the immigrant, not the slave, experience) nor typically white. Like Slumdog Millionaire or a mash-up CD, Obama represents a crossing of cultures. His story makes a larger argument: that nothing is as simple as it's made out to be. Black and white is not simply black and white. And neither, therefore, are our eternal us-vs.-them arguments over faith...
...discord surrounding Wyeth made that seem a little foolish. Is it really possible to “capture the heart of America?” You can make the argument that, if anyone could, Wyeth did. He took for his subject none other than the great American landscape. His subjects were plainspoken farmers, windswept grasses, people who worked hard and took pride in sacrifice. You know, Amurricans...
Very few people are going to read Change for America front to back. Broken up into topical essays, it's easy to jump back and forth between an explanation of how the Department of Homeland Security stinks to an argument in favor of a new National Energy Council. And while much of the book delves into government bureaucracy to an almost molecular degree, all Americans (even those who don't lean left) should flip through. You'll learn about your government (you'll re-learn all that stuff you picked up in high school and quickly forgot...
...Congo] and the international community - both of whom have failed to resolve the conflict in the eastern DRC despite numerous bilateral, regional and international initiatives in the last 14 years," read a Rwandan government statement. Tuesday's invasion can be seen as a follow-up to that argument: Rwanda, frustrated by Congolese and U.N. failure, is now trying to end the war itself, and by the by remove the ostensible reason for Nkunda's rebels to exist...
...double murder was bold even by the standards of Moscow, a city that has become used to assassinations over the past few years. "This murder shows that political murder [has] become the decisive factor in Russia's social life, and the use of force the main argument against a personality," Sergey Mitrokhin, head of the liberal Yabloko Party, said in a statement. The hit on Markelov, the second such high-profile assassination in the capital's center in five months, "casts us back to the 1990s," Gennady Gudkov, deputy head of the State Duma's Security Committee, told journalists...