Word: exceptionality
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...There was really no coverage of civil rights, and there was no coverage of blacks except if they did something criminal,” Lake says. Despite the danger, they came to report on the violent outbursts, as well as the day-to-day struggles, of Alabama in the 1960s...
...shore your please to no It’s letter perfect all the weigh My chequer towed me sew-Anonymous Spelling is a lost art. With the invention of spell check, most of us graduated grade school perfectly content with the thought that “I before E except after C” was a thing of the past, locked away with good penmanship in the cabinet of archaic talents. But what about those of us who didn’t want to say goodbye to the good old ABCs? For us, there was the spelling bee.Few people know...
...parodists in New Zealand," sing about the usual stuff--mistaken identity, killer robots, racist dragons--but with an earnest, blinking naivet. It's a hemisphere away from the witty social commentary that reigns on America's comedy circuit. "I guess we're kind of nerdy hipsters," says Bret McKenzie (except he pronounces it "nurdy hupstas"). Jemaine Clement, on the other hand, prefers to describe their comedy as "awkward." The Conchords are about to take flight. An album is due this year, and the two are developing a sitcom for HBO. Meanwhile, you can catch Clement's seminal work on commercials...
...purely to save the future hide of his sister, U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu, who has long relied on the New Orleans machine, particularly in the African-American community, to get out her vote. Landrieu himself called for satellite voting outside the state - as did almost all the other candidates, except the Republican mayoral hopefuls Ron Couhig and Peggy Wilson. "It would obviously be easier if we had voting places outside Louisiana. It?s not unprecedented. We just did in the Iraqi election," says Landrieu. "From where I sit, the more the merrier...
...collapse. He was to have an operation the next day. I was supposed to be acting Prime Minister for three hours while he had the operation. He asked me to meet with him. I remember joking with him and saying, ?I'm not going to make any decision tomorrow except changing all your staff.? At the end of the meeting I stood up and said ?Arik, this country needs you. Stay well. Come back. I am looking forward to hearing your voice on the phone tomorrow saying ?Ehud I relieve you of your responsibilities. I'm back in town.'? Then...