Search Details

Word: blacks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Even just a Cousteau. D.A.: Yeah.8. FM: So who would win in a game of two-on-two: your producers Pharrell and Chad Hugo—Founders of Star Trak—or Chester French? D.A.: They’d win because Pharrell’s black, and everyone knows black people are way way way better at basketball. Max: And what people don’t realize about Pharrell is that in addition to having massive, powerful, yet soft and beautiful hands, he’s like 6’3”, dude. I saw this mother fucker...

Author: By Kevin Lin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with Chester French | 5/7/2009 | See Source »

...With his dramatic plans to restructure Wall Street and Detroit, overhaul health care and create a clean-energy economy, Obama is certainly taking political risks, even if he hasn't gotten around to replacing the almighty dollar with some new, one-world currency the black-helicopter crowd keeps warning about. But it's not clear that the Republicans in their current incarnation would be a credible alternative if he falters. "We've got to be at least plausible, and I worry about that," says GOP lobbyist Ed Rogers. Republicans never really left the idea business, but Americans haven't been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Year Ago: The Republicans in Distress | 5/7/2009 | See Source »

...Still, a 2012 presidential candidate could catch lightning in a bottle, Reagan-style or Susan Boyle-style - although when you think about it, Republicans found a nationally admired war hero with proven bipartisan appeal in 2008, and he lost to an inexperienced black liberal with a funny name. Outside Washington, moderates like Charlie Crist in Florida and Jodi Rell in Connecticut as well as pragmatic conservatives like Mitch Daniels in Indiana and Jon Huntsman in Utah have remained popular despite their brand. They all share an aversion to ideological rigidity: Rell signed a bill legalizing same-sex unions, Crist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Year Ago: The Republicans in Distress | 5/7/2009 | See Source »

...should erase the shabby standards of financial oversight that have weakened us all in the age of Bernie Madoff. Corporate bailouts need to end - but Republicans must be determined to never again adopt a laissez-faire approach to Wall Street. After Black Monday, the Asian crisis, Long-Term Capital Management's meltdown, the Internet bust, the Enron scandal, WorldCom's collapse and the subprime crisis, there is nothing conservative about turning a blind eye to reckless speculation and greed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How the Republicans Can Come Back | 5/7/2009 | See Source »

...protest potential. (Real Warning: Although these images are made completely out of LEGOs, they are disturbing.) Legofesto posts her creations on a blog and Flickr page. Who knew there were so many different LEGO accessories and facial expressions? There's a Gitmo prisoner strapped to a stretcher wearing a black hood - made out of LEGOs. There's a detainee getting waterboarded - by LEGO figurines. There's President Bush declaring "Missing Accomplished" - standing at a LEGO podium. "By using toys, I hope the viewer will linger longer over the image and think again about what is actually being depicted or described...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lego Violence | 5/6/2009 | See Source »

Previous | 290 | 291 | 292 | 293 | 294 | 295 | 296 | 297 | 298 | 299 | 300 | 301 | 302 | 303 | 304 | 305 | 306 | 307 | 308 | 309 | 310 | Next