Word: decentering
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...Southernness not only stands for moderate, red-state politics. It also carries a cultural meaning, one that Clark hints at with his sad Mama tales: We're average people. In Edwards' new book, Four Trials, people are never just people--they are always "regular people" or "decent people" or folks with "good common sense...
...tough to get a decent flow because of penalties being called against us and [the Tigers],” Corriero said. “That made it hard to build any type of momentum...
...conservative on social policy. "The only important color in this country anymore is green," says Gilda Cobb-Hunter, a social worker and state representative from rural Orangeburg, S.C. "Black people have the same worries that white people do: Will I have a job, will my kids go to a decent school, and can I afford to get sick?" But in South Carolina, where the median income for blacks is $14,750--about half that of whites--and where almost half the school districts are suing the state for not adequately funding a basic public education, black voters also want some...
...matter of free will, that people make their choices and then must accept the consequences. But the right choices--going to school, working hard, saving for a down payment--used to offer a reasonable assurance of achieving the American dream. While most of us still have a decent shot at the good life, risk has been introduced into American life--the risk of never getting on track to prosperity, or falling suddenly from it--in ways few Washington policymakers would care to admit...
...series of investigative reports between now and the presidential election on Nov. 2, TIME will explore the many ways in which American life has become a game of chance--one that has no mercy on Middle America and the working poor--and what can be done to restore decent odds for the pursuit of happiness. --With reporting by Laura Karmatz and Barbara Kiviat and research by Joan Levinstein