Word: facto
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...hell." Yet it also underscored TV's tremendous power, as the networks' blunders led to Al Gore's concession takeback. And as that wild night set up an acrimonious Florida soap opera played out for the cameras, it revealed the media's dual, contradictory roles: national laughingstock and de facto fourth branch of government...
...football team's thoughts will also be drifting towards happening hundreds of miles way in sleepy Ithaca, N.Y., where Penn plays Cornell. It is the de facto Ivy League championship, between two teams that each beat Harvard by only one point...
...most common paths for nuns have been public service or secluded contemplation. Neither seems sustainable as convents become de facto nursing homes, and fewer young women hear--or heed--the call. For the Love of God is a probing ethnography of an endangered American subculture...
...hell." Yet it also underscored TV's tremendous power, as the networks' blunders led to Al Gore's concession takeback. And as that wild night set up an acrimonious Florida soap opera played out for the cameras, it revealed the media's dual, contradictory roles: national laughingstock and de facto fourth branch of government...
...most common paths for nuns have been public service or secluded contemplation. Neither seems sustainable as convents become de facto nursing homes, and fewer young women hear - or heed - the call. "For the Love of God" is a probing ethnography of an endangered American subculture...