Word: favor
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...Beinart's brilliant essay ought to be sealed in a TIME capsule to be opened at the end of this generation. Barack Obama and the Democrats have broken the reign of the Republican "corporatocracy" and throttled the neocon New American Century in favor of the ancient Oriental wisdom of peaceful coexistence of freedom and order. The recent Republican ineptness in matters foreign and domestic has jolted us into the revelation that conservative dogma has been largely naive and misguided, and the wise course into the future is progressive. Roger Steed, Dayton, Ohio...
...Culture Gap There are two phrases that anyone moving to one of India's Hindi-speaking big cities quickly learns. The first is, "Chalta hai." Literally: "It goes." Figuratively: "It works well enough, so why bother?" The second is "jugaar," referring to the web of favors and imperfect, improvised, less-than-legal solutions through which most things in India still get done. Taken together, these two cultural touchstones are the biggest reasons why India has not yet found the political will to address its deepest problems. "Chalta hai," Indians say about everything from traffic to political corruption to substandard education...
...wonderful life, college football fans' grumbling over the Bowl Championship Series (BCS)--the muddled method by which the sport anoints its national champion--has become a December rite. The chorus of critics includes Barack Obama, who opined in his first postelection interview that "any sensible person" would favor a playoff system to determine who's No. 1. And that was before the Oklahoma Sooners sped past Texas in this year's race to the BCS title game despite losing to the Longhorns 45-35 in October--a result purists say should logically make Texas the higher-ranked team...
CORRECTION Lucy M. Caldwell's December 2, 2008 column, "Lessons From Mumbai," incorrectly stated that half of British Muslims favored being governed under Sharia law. In fact, only 30.9 percent reported being in favor of Sharia. The figure stated in the article referred to the 45.1 percent of British Muslims who believe that the September 11th attacks were a conspiracy by the United States and Israel. The writer regrets the error...
...wrangling over the pursuit of terror suspects living in Pakistan. Lines of well-wishers snaked by the windows of police vans to shake the hands of the security personnel inside. Men with guns seemed far more popular than those with electoral mandates, though many in the crowd did not favor war. "We want real action," says Radikha Varma, a schoolteacher. "But there are good people on both sides of the border. The same thing that happened here should not be happening there either...