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...About the intimidation thing, I think a lot of us are intimidated, not by [white] women, but by our own image," Everson added. "If you're not nerdy you're a gangster. We're far from the masculine ideal...
...real and pressing problem experienced by the one-sixth of the American population who have no health insurance. His $65 million plan would ensure near-universal and affordable coverage. Although Bradley has yet to address specific funding issues, he is the only presidential candidate firmly committed to the plausible ideal of universal health coverage. Beyond health care, Bradley has not wavered from his promise of campaign finance reform and has had a relatively clean record when it comes to fundraising. In education, he has vowed to forgive loans for students who earn teaching certification and plan to work in poor...
...result is a movie that is at once smug and lazy, qualities fatal to comedy. And qualities increasingly prevalent in an era enervated by the ironic ideal. (Wouldn't it be ironic if irony destroyed our ability to make one another laugh?) At some point in What Planet Are You From? you start to wonder how these people acquired the air of unearned superiority that makes the movie seem so old and tired...
...mechanical grasshoppers are ideal for the mission, capable of flitting over rolling jungles at more than 100 m.p.h. They are about the only conveyance possible; roads and airports are scarce, and river travel is slow. Helicopters can survey the rugged Andean terrain for coca and poppy fields, for crude drug-shipping airstrips hacked out of the vegetation and for the labs where the narcotraffickers produce illicit drugs. Armed and armored, the helicopters can protect unarmed crop-dusting planes as they spray lethal herbicides over thousands of acres of coca and poppy plants. And only helicopters can spot outlaw labs...
...looked around at the buildings in the Yard, he smiled and added, "We may be disrupting some classes that are going on here, where students are talking about their 'ideal society...