Word: insistences
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...members of the Bee, Isis, Sabliere, Pleiades, and the especially insidious Seneca insist on excluding our kind? We are no different. If you think about it, men just have reverse vaginas, kind of the way Jewish people have reverse brains. And no one discriminates against Jewish people. No one ever...
...Democrats insist Angelides can get traction fast by hammering Schwarzenegger as a political schizophrenic who has opportunistically morphed from moderate reformer during his first campaign to a conservative extremist while pushing his special-election initiatives last year and now to centrist consensus builder as he seeks a second term. They are applauding an Angelides 30-second spot launched a few days ago attacking the Governor for being "a Republican pretending to be something...
...Mahdi Army and U.S. forces have clashed openly several times in the past three years, fighting sometimes for days in battles that end inconclusively with uneasy truces. Today, senior officials on both sides insist they hope to avoid another round of bloodletting. And yet the mounting violence in the capital looks set to draw them into a new confrontation...
Just as the starchy, bow-tied, dress-for-success suit is an artifact of an earlier age, The Power of Nice argues that the bossy broad that early self-help authors championed is outdated. Nice is the new mean, insist co-authors Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval. They bravely--and persuasively--endorse a more traditional feminine style. Says Koval: "The business world has developed in a male culture, where the worst thing that a man could say to another man is, 'You're a wimp. You're not tough enough.' As women came into business, a lot of them...
...sure, but so are nationalism, ethnicity, socialism, markets, nepotism, class, and globalization. Why single religion out among all the major forces in history?There is also considerable disagreement over whether religion really is the driving force behind the conflicts that are commonly attributed to it. Many people in Ireland insist that the Ulster conflict is about British rule versus Irish unification, not about Protestantism versus Catholicism. And among the Islam-aligned forces with which our country is currently entangled, Saddam Hussein’s Baathism is more secular and nationalist than it is religious. Whether or not religion...