Word: clear
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...respond to our resolution and will respond to the conflict with a great deal of energy and creativity and determination” although he added that whether Obama’s administration would be successful in bringing an end to the conflict “is not clear...
...Supporters praise Kennedy for her charm, her bestselling book, and her dedication to education advocacy. Critics attack her on the same grounds, as the recent charges of her inarticulateness make clear. Lost in all the vitriol is any real interest in her policy views...
...five years.”This law, however, has not been invoked much in secular Senegal until now. Generally, as Imam Amadou Kanté acknowledges, homosexuality is treated much like public drunkenness. It is okay, he says, to be drunk in private, but not in public. But he is clear to note that in private or public, Islam does not sanction homosexuality. So why were nine AIDS activists arrested with only lubricants and condoms—standard HIV-prevention tools—as supposed evidence of private homosexual conduct?The answer is that several authorities are guilty of the same...
...Even if the press were dying for a clear delineation of her platform, they wouldn’t have much to go on. Kennedy’s op-ed in the New York Times last January marked the first time she has publicly endorsed a candidate for office. While she has, in the past few weeks, taken a public stand on media-friendly issues like same-sex marriage and school vouchers, she continually side-steps questions about how she might depart from the party line. Even her editorial, entitled “A President Like My Father...
...predecessors (they're relieved he won't call the city "Warshington"), while others say it allows him to better understand multicultural, 21st century America. But the fact that Obama has spent weekends walking down the street to the barbershop instead of riding a 4x4 across a ranch to clear some brush is more significant than any particular kind of cultural or sociological orientation. It means he thinks about policy problems and solutions in a way that differs from most Republican and Democratic politicians, a fact that could dramatically shape this urban President's domestic agenda. (See pictures of Obama...