Word: caste
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...sophomore Adam Chrissis. With those targets, Murphy’s confident that Winters and the other quarterbacks will have no problem spreading the field.“On one hand, your offense goes as your quarterback goes, but your quarterback also only goes as good as his supporting cast,” Murphy says. “I think by having a relatively experienced offensive line group and receiving group, it’s going to make the transition a lot easier.”Providing a balance on the offense is the deep running back position. Junior Gino Gordon...
...futuristic, but in other ways it’s also a throwback. Cudi’s rhymes hearken back to an “old school” style rap lyricism, but his blend of genres and forward-thinking production keep him from getting mired in any one cast. His willingness to experiment artistically is notable, especially for a newcomer to the hip-hop scene. With “Man on the Moon,” Kid Cudi embraces the challenge of bringing hip-hop to a wider audience, and in so doing stretches the established boundaries of the genre...
...Gaza battle in the court of international public opinion - and has warned officers involved in the operation of the danger of arrest in third countries while traveling in their private capacities - the operation enjoyed overwhelming domestic political support. And Israel's heavy-handed approach in what it called Operation Cast Lead, which inflicted heavy casualties and widespread damage to Gaza's infrastructure, has been embraced as a model of effectiveness by the Israeli military, because it is seen as having ensured that Israeli forces suffered hardly any casualties while operating against a dangerous guerrilla force in a hostile urban environment...
...last year's Olympics, the number of security forces on the streets doubled, controls on the Internet tightened, and dissidents and other potential troublemakers were rounded up or confined to their homes. But preparations and precautions for the 60th anniversary parade - when some 200,000 soldiers and a supporting cast of students and other civilians will march past a reviewing stand in Tiananmen Square - have far exceeded those undertaken for past events. (Read "An Olympic-Sized Security Blanket...
...course, part of a larger question. The recent controversy over the arrest of historian Henry Louis Gates Jr. - who was charged with disorderly conduct in his home after police arrived to investigate an erroneous report of a burglary in progress - was cast in racial terms: a white officer distrusting a black homeowner. But Walczak says this issue seems to have more to do with a police officer being confronted by an angry and disrespectful person and turning disorderly-conduct laws into a "contempt of cop" law, as he puts it. "Frankly, I think having someone dropping the F-bomb...