Word: doves
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...Backtrack, again—there are some things you need to know about me. Every winter, I change my clock forward a single hour and fall into a total despair. I lie in bed eating Dove Promises and wondering when the goddamn sun will come back out. After years of trying to pin the blame for this behavior on outside forces—El Niño! our economic situation!—it was this winter that I finally accepted the fact that I’m a victim of Seasonal Affective Disorder...
...immigration, McCain is often dubbed a dove. Admirably, he pushed an immigration policy proposal last summer that would grant amnesty and establish a path to citizenship for millions of illegal aliens currently living in America, despite taking a great deal of heat from the Republican base. We applaud McCain on these counts. Nevertheless, McCain also voted for a bill that includes erecting a Mexican border wall—a proposal that is likely to be more costly than it is effective and one that we simply cannot support...
...least the Israeli security wall is attracting a new kind of tourist, the graffiti guerrilla. The phantom British artist Banksy recently led a posse of foreign artists to the wall. He spray-painted a picture of a peace dove in a flak jacket that was captured in a sniper's crosshairs. And on the side of a house, he drew a little girl in a pink dress frisking an Israeli soldier. At times, the graffiti lifts my spirit. Other times, when I'm angry after being delayed at the checkpoint, I think that art alone can't bring down that...
...boss at the time, Laura C. Dove, who is now assistant secretary for the minority in the U.S. Senate, says Chen stands out from her roughly two decades on Capitol Hill...
Divers from Princeton, Penn State, Rider University, Brown, and University of Pittsburgh-AM also dove in the event, which gave Harvard’s young roster a chance to compete under new conditions...