Word: blatantness
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...Blatant lie, or mistaken identity? This issue is tied up in larger questions about what really entitles someone to claim he or she is Native American. Legally, U.S. citizens are Native American if they are part of a tribe or if they can prove themselves to be at least one-quarter Native American. Proving that you are of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, for instance, can be as easy as tracing your family tree back to a distant relative on an obscure tribal census taken in 1906. Other Cherokee Nations require a blood quantum—the proportion of tribal...
...netminder had already fallen earlier in the game—the result of an innocent tangle behind the goal—and assistant captain Ryan Lannon had already taken a blatant elbow to the jaw, a penalty that had led to the Crimson’s power-play score...
...netminder had already fallen earlier in the game—the result of an innocent tangle behind the goal—and assistant captain Ryan Lannon had already taken a blatant elbow to the jaw, a penalty that had led to the Crimson’s power-play score...
...allies are. Khan was too hot to handle, so even making him the fall guy for selling Pakistan's nuclear secrets was out of the question. Instead, President Pervez Musharraf pardoned Khan and put him under house arrest in his sumptuous villa. This for an act of treason so blatant and outrageous that it has few parallels in any nation, authoritarian or not. Khan's pardon was part of a cover-up. Rama Prem Freiburg, Germany Khan has confessed to leaking Pakistan's nuclear secrets to Iran, Libya and North Korea. The startling revelation that he may also have provided...
...decades, partisan gerrymandering has gotten steadily worse, and citizens, confronted with this complicated process, have generally responded with confusion and indifference. However, as the situation degenerates into political chaos, and blatant inequities with the status quo become evident to all, we are confident that more and more Americans will join us in pressing for meaningful reform...