Word: fourth
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...build infrastructure, raise income levels, reduce poverty, battle disease and illiteracy and provide stability, and you will let me run the country as my personal fiefdom. Other strongmen have made that same deal, but no one ever implemented it on such a large scale - Indonesia is the world's fourth most populous nation - for so long...
...surprise?that I belong to a pool of supposedly disadvantaged minorities. I struggle with the skewed concept of race in America. For some reason, having black blood is almost seen as some kind of contamination. How would this racial-political dialogue play out if, say, Barack Obama were one-fourth or one-eighth black? I am reminded of the Christian teachings on original sin. However good, intelligent or capable a person you might be, there is something that still taints your righteousness. Whether we like it or not, Obama's black half will ultimately lead to the demise...
...complete without a cake, and increasingly, bakers are being asked to come up with fanciful designs that give new meaning to the pun "just desserts." Joan Spitler, co-owner of Cake Divas in Los Angeles, says she was used to baking cakes for "people's second, third and even fourth weddings" but has recently been getting orders for confections to mark the end of marriages as well. The designs feature scenarios like a bride kicking her former groom down the tiers of the cake. At Sprinkles Custom Cakes in Winter Park, Fla., Larry Bach has been getting requests...
...responsibilities is to help make sure that democracy is reborn in every generation. TIME is the fourth most read consumer magazine among college students (behind Cosmopolitan, PEOPLE and SPORTS ILLUSTRATED), according to the Student Monitor, and TIME.com has a greater proportion of 18-to-34-year-olds in its audience than any of its major news competitors except Yahoo! News and Google News. And don't forget the nearly 4 million children, from kindergarten through seventh grade, who read TIME FOR KIDS. May they all become informed, engaged citizens...
...Congress. One Republican lawmaker, having watched his party lose control of both houses because of the war just a few months before, told Bush in a White House meeting that he would support the surge but that the strategy was a little like throwing a Hail Mary on fourth down. At about the same time, Bush told General David Petraeus, the top U.S. general in Iraq, that he would be getting additional troops...