Word: haile
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...natural that Obama's only question cut straight to the factor beyond his own ability to shape his destiny. And as gambles go, late August weather in Denver is a pretty safe one. The blockbuster thunderstorms of June and July, when the sky goes jet black and the hail falls amid the whirlwinds, give way to gentler days and soft evenings...
Despite its triumphs elsewhere, the question now is whether a story that deconstructs French social prejudices to hail the eternal value of culture can seduce readers in the U.S. and Britain. Barbery thinks her book has enjoyed such universal success because people everywhere are worried about superficiality overtaking substance in their lives. She says her cast of "improbable characters and clashing perspectives has managed to interest an equally improbable range of readers from very different backgrounds." It would be a surprise if those who read English proved any less susceptible to this book's charms...
...remarkable odyssey for the two battered ships of the "Free Gaza" movement, a U.S.-based pro-Palestinian group, which set out from Cyprus on Friday morning with few hopes of reaching Gaza. The activists, who hail from 14 countries, said that before they even set sail, they faced anonymous death threats, the mysterious drowning of one potential sponsor, and constant badgering by Israeli spies badly disguised as guitar-strumming hippies. "They kept popping up, everywhere," said Angela Godfrey-Goldstein, an organizer. "They were really annoying...
...York is not the first city that cultural spectators would expect to fulfill such a warm and welcoming service. Most New Yorkers survey the surrounding lands of New Jersey and elsewhere with distaste. They prefer to hail their city as a de facto republic in the societal marshland of the rest of America. This geographical snobbery is even more concentrated in the intercity divisions among Manhattan, Brooklyn and the “lesser” boroughs. Really, one need not bother to even name them...
...yesterday's immigrants and where change is practically a national religion, conservative patriotism can seem anachronistic. To be Spanish or Russian or Japanese is to imagine that you share a common ancestry and common traditions that trace back into the mists of time. But in America, where most people hail from somewhere else, that kind of blood-and-soil patriotism makes no sense. There is something vaguely farcical about conservative panic over Mexican flags in Los Angeles when Irish flags have long festooned Boston's streets on St. Patrick's Day. Linking patriotism too closely to a reverence for inherited...