Word: bear
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...More troubling is the McCain campaign’s most persistent talking point: that Barack Obama is a naive, idealistic hope-monger who spouts flighty rhetoric without offering real solutions. Such claims bear little relation to the reality of the candidates’ policy proposals. The recent financial crisis offers an illustration: Senator Obama responded to the crisis with steady pragmatism, while Senator McCain naively refused to recognize the fiscal irresponsibility of cutting taxes for the wealthy, and still clings to Republican dogma that the federal government ruins everything...
...Benjamin Bishin, a political-science professor at the University of California at Riverside who has studied early voting in Florida, says this year's turnout seems to bear out research on two fronts. One is that early voting "disproportionately rewards campaigns that are better organized" because it often requires more refined voter-mobilization efforts than regular voting does; the other is that it "lowers barriers to participation," especially for hourly workers, who can least afford to take time off from work on election Tuesday. "And the fact that these voters are waiting two or three hours in line, which would...
...love for other reasons. It seemed like I’d stumbled upon my dream job, and they hired me with no hassle. “IceScapes is fairly informal,” said Ron, the avuncular owner who bore an uncanny resemblance to a life-sized teddy bear, “We let you play whatever music you like.” As he said this, Ron gestured to a boom box by the freezers and noted that he was a Jurassic 5 fan; as I surveyed the large central room I even recognized some friends from high school...
...when she blurted out, “Alex, I think I’m conservative,” I realized that I had been deluding her with false hopes. I couldn’t bear to look at her. Clearly, this girl I had always thought of as an intelligent, rational being was secretly a sub-literate moron. All those times we‘d innocently joked about Bristol and Levi, she’d been harboring perverted desires to do things like watch FOX News and vote for McCain. “At least tell me you still think...
...honor of Eric Cartman, I offer my predictions for the end of the season. Bear in mind: just like Cheng Ho, my imagination may just run wild...