Word: canting
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...fall of the Taliban has found that a majority of Afghans have a favorable view of the international forces in their country. A BBC/ABC News poll conducted this year, for instance, showed that 63% of Afghans have a favorable view of the U.S. military. To those who say you cant trust polls taken in Afghanistan, its worth noting that the same type of poll consistently finds neighboring Pakistan to be one of the most anti-American countries in the world...
...then that was consistent." The pungent, witty remark was vintage Elson, who died on Sept. 7 at 78. In his four decades at TIME, Elson wrote more than a dozen cover stories and edited hundreds more. He had eclectic interests and a skepticism that had no patience for cant or showboaters. Budding editors had no better mentor. Elson once said the process of editing was the opposite of the American jurisprudence system, in that every writer was guilty until proved innocent. He had good advice for writers as well. "Never let the search for the perfect...
...retired engineer from buying eight bunnies - at $4.50 a pop - and 20 milk chocolate hazelnut bars for his family back in Hamburg. "We may not be able to buy luxuries any more, but we can still splurge on small pleasures like chocolate," he laughs. (See pictures of things money cant...
...street. I suffer from depression, but this was different. What I'd experienced before was sort of a low humming that's always there but manageable. Postpartum depression was an all-out panic. You're suddenly responsible for another human being. Normally you'd cope by sleeping, but you cant do that. (Read TIME's 1992 article about drug therapy for depression...
...Orquesta Aragón--now he's thumping the ones and threes. This thing is really moving now; the horns punch in, and the camera pans across the room to the three singers by the door, with Oscar in the middle, improvising over a chorus in that high, almost nasal cant of the salsero. The camera would follow the cables from the cramped room--13 Cuban musicians jammed in a room that wouldn't fit five Americans!--out to the porch, where the roadies and techs are busy tweaking something on the big mixer because all the gear...