Word: expressions
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...batch of “spices” include influences from Yemen and other neighboring countries in the Middle East as well as from places across Europe and the Balkans. She said that Olivero has bridged the gap between the past and the present, pioneering a new way to express classical music. “Listening to her music is like swimming in an ocean and when you pick up your head you can see the traditions she is weaving into her music,” she said. One member of the audience, Arkadig Abramov, said this concert will hopefully...
...Down to earth” also happens to be how Jay Friarson—the driver of the Straight Talk Express bus, McCain’s campaign vehicle—describes Johnston. Friarson, who calls Johnston his “Harvard cat,” said he likes working with...
...marriage, as evidenced by a 2000 ballot measure to recognize only heterosexual marriages. The ideological terrain has shifted since then, however—a July California Field Poll survey found that 51 percent of voters will likely vote against Prop 8. This Tuesday, voters will have the chance to express their opinions; the fact that they have never voted for same sex marriage before is not an argument for why they cannot now. Gay rights are a perennial source of debate in California, but the rhetoric used on both sides is now reaching near-apocalyptic levels. In such a large...
...Some argue that I should vote to express myself. But is it impossible to find a better way to express oneself than pulling a lever in a closed booth and marking down the name of a proxy with which one barely agrees...
...University of Wisconsin political-science professor Charles Franklin has crunched early-October tracking-poll data and found that Regina Hansley is pretty typical. Undecided voters are no more likely to express questionable attitudes about African Americans than are the public as a whole. He did find, however, that undecided voters are more likely to be predicted as McCain voters than are the general population; 50% of undecideds will likely go for McCain, compared with the 36% of decided voters who say they will pull the lever for the Republican...