Word: focusing
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...Mbeki's head. Instead, he had called for Mbeki to serve out the remainder of his term, in order to ensure a smooth political transition. Zuma told his party that it would be a waste of energy to "beat a dead snake," and instead appealed to them to focus on healing internal divisions. Malema's response: "Fine ... we are no longer beating it and we are burying this snake this weekend...
...Wainwright declares, “My heart was made for bleeding all over you / I know you’re married but I’ve got feelings, too / And I still love you” with honest hurt and determined strength. Wainwright doesn’t only focus on the borderline of the socially acceptable, however. She self-consciously explores everything from the shocked naïveté of a jilted lover (“You cheated me and I can’t believe it”) to the origins of artistic inspiration (“I could...
...Small Island.” I picked up the novel this summer because my mother was reading it for her book club. It’s hard not to compare Levy to Smith: both are black, female British authors of Jamaican heritage. More importantly, both produce works that focus on counteracting the dominant voices in British and American history by illuminating an alternative discourse. But in “Small Island,” Levy succeeds where Smith falls short.Levy dexterously handles the profound and complicated themes of a novel whose central conflict is the migration of Jamaican soldiers...
Barnstorming through battleground states together, John McCain and Sarah Palin have developed a buddy act that brings an energy and focus not present when McCain campaigns alone. Before he added Palin to a ticket encumbered with the now-unpopular Republican brand, McCain's events were sparsely attended and sometimes listless. That has all changed...
...still high. Goldman Sachs in a note to investors this week said that Asian stocks are "getting interestingly cheap" but analysts "certainly do not pretend to have any real clarity on the near-term market outlook." The investment bank said "for now, most investors in Asia will continue to focus more on cutting risk and hedging positions rather than putting on substantial new risk." The wild ride in Asian markets isn't over...