Word: ethnics
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Most politicians' humor, however, tends to be safe rather than biting. Dole's thrust-and-cut jokes in 1976, when he was the G.O.P. vice-presidential nominee, were said to have alienated voters. Several realms are off-limits: ethnic and racial jokes, anything remotely smutty. While Reagan can repeat punch lines about his age, it would be unseemly for a Democrat to joke about the President's advanced years. Topicality is crucial. For instance, Rollings' allusion to Carter's seven-year-old, lust-in-my-heart Playboy interview (Hollings: "I'm lusting...
Like so many African countries, Chad is an amalgam of religious and ethnic groups that were arbitrarily united by colonial rule. The country straddles the nomadic Muslim culture of the Sahara and the black African traditions of Christians and animists who are engaged in agriculture in the savannas of the more densely populated south. Although Chad's internal turmoil began as a conflict between north and south, it has grown into a power struggle between Habré and Goukouni, two Muslim warlords from the north...
Frank Costello, a spokesman for candidate Raymond I. Flynn, pointed out that King and Washington had never met before and that the Chicago mayor may have endorsed King only on "ethnic grounds...
...would be difficult to imagine a more unlikely partnership than the U.S.Japanese alliance. One nation is ancient and culturally homogeneous, crowded onto an archipelago at the edge of Asia. The other is an ethnic melting pot, with European roots, that spreads across a continent. Both are troubled by memories of a global war that inaugurated the nuclear age, terribly and personally for each. Still, over the past three decades the U.S. and Japan have managed to forge what U.S. Ambassador to Tokyo Mike Mansfield calls "the most important single bilateral relationship, bar none." An American with long experience in Japan...
McMullan was also instrumental in expanding the Herald's staff to reflect the strong ethnic diversity of Miami's community: without a single black staffer 15 years ago, the Herald now has 20 black reporters, a black editor and a black columnist. Even greater strides have been made toward the city's Latin population. The Herald is the only large metropolitan newspaper in the country to publish a daily Spanish edition (circ. 66,000). There are two Latin columnists and 40 staff members, including a member of the editorial board, to help cover the city...