Word: discussive
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...race is more than color, and therein lies the fascination of Black. White. In learning to "pass," both families have to address awkward questions that people rarely discuss in mixed racial company. What does it mean to "talk white" or "walk black"? (Both families meet with consultants, including a dialect coach.) And can you discuss cultural differences without falling into stereotypes? In the first episode, Brian and Renee point out that a black woman would not ask as many personal questions as Carmen does. "Your nature is to be more curious," Brian tells her. (Imagine a white man observing that...
...incumbent Ibrahim al-Jaafari as prime minister. The main Kurdish grievance with Jaafari appears to be his resistance to their attempts to incorporate the northern oil city of Kirkuk into their de facto autonomous mini-state; the last straw was a recent visit by Jaafari to Ankara to discuss Iraqi affairs with Turkey, which has made clear that it regards anything resembling Kurdish sovereignty on its border as intolerable. It has vowed to support Iraq's Turkmen minority, concentrated in Kirkuk, in resisting attempts to incorporate the city into Kurdistan...
...explain their silence, Faculty members cite their unwillingness to discuss confidential academic matters in public. In other words, they have all the information to convince us, but for reasons of university security they can’t reveal any of it. Isn’t that what the Bush administration is saying about its illegal wiretapping...
...first glance, the deadlock over Iran's nuclear program looks like a crisis in the making: The International Atomic Energy Agency board started a new meeting Monday in Vienna to discuss sending Iran's case to the UN Security Council; the U.S. plans to share with allies what it claims is new evidence that Iran's real intent is to build nuclear weapons, rather than simply a civilian energy program; and Iran defiantly warns that if the matter is referred to the Security Council, it will resume industrial-scale uranium enrichment - the activity that most concerns the West, given that...
...after ABC agreed to put Lost and Desperate Housewives on Apple's iTunes store as $1.99 downloads, giving viewers their first taste of (legal) Internet access to hit shows. "Every new-technology company had been courting us," recalls Disney-ABC TV president Anne Sweeney. "It's one thing to discuss possibilities, but when we saw the video iPod and iTunes store, the consumer experience was so vibrant, it convinced us that this was the right technology." Within a month, CBS and NBC made plans to offer some of their top shows as 99¢ video-on-demand selections through cable company...