Word: birthright
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...adults who are supposed to be nurturing the children but are lost in their own less-than-mature dreams of entitlement. All these prosperous people--save the criminal, of course--have bought into the middle-class American dream. Some wish vaguely to be "creative"; others think their birthright includes perfect romantic fulfillment. It may be that the film's greatest scene is a book group, in which the good ladies are studying Madame Bovary and trying to keep their distance from that doomed dreamer while Sarah tries to make them see what they might have in common with...
...just another of his expensive hobbies. But since Foley dropped out of the race last Friday - felled by the growing scandal over inappropriate e-mails he sent to young congressional pages - Mahoney suddenly appears to have all but won a seat that had come to look like a G.O.P. birthright. "I'm going to work to clean up cronyism and corruption in Congress," Mahoney tells TIME, sounding already like a victor in a hotel ballroom, "and work to bring rationality back to the way it does things...
...become Telstra owners, the stock's price would always be politically sensitive. Hence, governments would provide the dominant player with a favorable regulatory climate. Even though we lived in Sydney's suburbs, our family could now enjoy the kind of electoral pork barreling farmers and Tasmanians claimed as a birthright...
...points, Angelides signaled in a speech Wednesday that his strategy for catching up will include attacking the incumbent's record, tying Schwarzenegger to George W. Bush and positioning himself as a champion of the beleaguered middle class, in the Bill Clinton mold. "The promise of California was a birthright of the many, not a privilege of the few," Angelides said in his speech at the gymnasium of the Boys and Girls Club of Hollywood, flanked by union members and various Democratic officials. "That dream is in jeopardy because hardworking, middle-class families are working longer for less [because of] stagnant...
Thus, it’s a simple hop, skip, and jump for me to conceive of myself as the last of the Jedi, brought here by destiny to redeem my father, who so loathed this place. Or perhaps the heir to the Corleone empire, finally accepting my birthright in a small piece of land that my ancestors conquered in the face of ethnic hatred...