Word: favority
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...good idea to come upstairs and have another drink), you probably know it doesn’t hurt your cause to be informed. Reading the newspaper, watching CNN, keeping an eye on the oil prices—these things tend to work in your favor. And, if you happen to be a singer whose top singles have hooks like “All I wanna do is have some fun” and “I want to soak up the sun,” these activities might signal a legitimizing stride into a world weighing bigger issues than...
...Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled in University’s favor...
...monitors disagree. Human Rights Watch claims to have obtained a recording made by a journalist interviewing Pakistan's Attorney General Malik Qayyum by phone. In the course of the interview, Qayyum takes a call on a second line, and urges the unidentified caller to leave Sharif's party in favor of a ticket with another, unnamed party. The transcript, in Urdu, quotes Qayyum as saying, "They will massively rig to get their own people to win. If you can get a ticket from these guys, take it." The recording is available as an audio file on the Human Rights Watch...
...fine and decent as McCain would want to become President by the underhanded tactic of accepting the nomination of a party that loves him only for his appeal to the opposition. If McCain were half the principled gentleman he pretends to be, he would drop out now in favor of Rush Limbaugh. Now there's a Republican you can sink your teeth into...
...superdelegates should vote to best reflect the sentiments of the people. In addition to this reliance on superdelegates, so much else is wrong with the current presidential nomination process: the tremendous cost that ties candidates’ fates to wealthy donors; the unbalanced calendar that disproportionately favors a few unrepresentative states; and, most of all, the fundamentally undemocratic nature of the caucuses that are still used in many states. All three conditions favor hyperactive political elites over ordinary voters, but caucuses are a particularly egregious assault on democratic equality. The caucus structure disenfranchises voters, discouraging ordinary citizens with its substantial...