Word: jeaned
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...gangsta rappers have labeled women "hos," enabling that derogatory word to become commonplace? In the good ole days of feminism, Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan would have been as visible and vocal as Jackson and Sharpton. In the current storm, sexism has taken second place to racism. Jean M. Alberti, LOMBARD, ILLINOIS, U.S. A white man from an older generation chose the wrong slang to use, and it ended his career. I am not defending what Imus said; I only defend his right to say it. If you don't like what someone has to say, don't listen. Truly...
...revoir - and good riddance - to the fondness for fringe-party voting that has recently plagued French politics. That was the central message of the first round of the nation's presidential elections. In a stark contrast to 2002, when 4.8 million people voted for Jean-Marie Le Pen of the far-right National Front and another 11.5 million for a gallimaufry of no-hopers, an unprecedented 37 million voters turned out on April 22 to propel Nicolas Sarkozy of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) and Socialist Ségolène Royal into a May 6 runoff between...
...enormous. Royal desperately needs the votes of centrist François Bayrou, who took 18.5% of the first-round tally. She has reached out to Bayrou, but the would-be kingmaker is refusing to endorse either finalist. Sarkozy seems to have won nearly half the voters who in 2002 gave Jean-Marie Le Pen an 18% score. In the runoff Sarkozy will count on the rest plus Bayrou voters who share his focus on economic liberalization and cutting debt. Royal will pit her softer image against Sarkozy's tougher style. The odds favor Sarkozy, but the race is too close...
...real headquarters would ever dream of. Nicolas Sarkozy’s campaign headquarters was its own island; François Bayrou’s handed out t-shirts that read, “Sexy Centrist”; at one point, protesters staged riots outside the headquarters of far-right Jean-Marie Le Pen’s headquarters and tossed exploding pigs at security officers...
Halberstam’s time with the Times Leader ended abruptly when he was fired for his coverage of the Civil Rights movement after only one year, according to his wife, Jean Halberstam. He went on to work at the Nashville Tennessean, a job which his wife said he loved...