Word: blatantness
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...first, kids appear to adapt well to the disparity and often learn to game the system, flipping blatant favoritism back to their shared advantage. "They'll say to one another, 'Why don't you ask Mom if we can go to the mall because she never says no to you,'" says Conger. But at a deeper level, second-tier children may pay a price. "They tend to be sadder and have more self-esteem questions," Conger says. "They feel like they're not as worthy, and they're trying to figure...
...line to be toed, and Royal's stylish stilettos are out of bounds; even Hollande has voiced some concern. Perennials like Fabius and former Finance Minister Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who both think it's finally their turn to accede to a presidential candidacy, have been hoping that Royal's blatant appeal to the center will alienate party members, who will select the Socialist candidate in two rounds of voting next fall. "S?gol?ne may win the first round," says one source close to Strauss-Kahn, "But we're hoping everyone else will join us to stop her in the runoff...
...mandate” of the 1980 election by scurrying to the right will probably find their jobs taken from them by identical-looking Republican challengers in a few years. Jimmy Carter lost because he failed to define how he differed from Reagan’s blatant appeal to human greed and senile values—others who follow in his path will follow him to political limbo. This election was a defeat for the half-baked party Carter hoped to forge, not for the party that Franklin Roosevelt did forge and the one that can emerge strong from this year...
...system—a second packet to be handed out at registration and specifically set aside for student groups. While the second packet solution will allow the GSA to get its message across, it does not address the root of the problem, which is not information flow but blatant discrimination. Harvard will not solve its “gay problem” with the purchase of 6000 additional manila envelopes; instead it must clearly, without the shield of Robert’s Rules of Order, indicate its support for the civil rights of gay students and then firmly support those...
...with George Bush. It was the introduction of anti-gay-marriage initiatives that tipped the election for Bush and her father in key states. Those initiatives didn't end up on the ballot by accident. Instead of pointing a finger at Kerry for what she calls a "cheap and blatant political ploy," she should remember that Republicans are masters at exploiting divisive issues that rile single-issue voters on the right and get them to the polls. Richard Oliver Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S. Catalan Pride on the Pitch I was disappointed by Franklin Foer's essay about European football, "Homage...