Word: johnson
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...know there will be many whose pencils hovered for an instant before putting an X in my box, and I will work flat out to repay and to justify your confidence.' BORIS JOHNSON, British journalist turned politician, after defeating incumbent Ken Livingstone in London's mayoral election...
...terms of women’s activism,” Alford said. “It was just two years ago that people were fighting over the establishment of the Women’s Center.” Another intern at the Women’s Center, Nikki A. Johnson, a student at the Graduate School of Design, said the event was a “very low-key and friendly way of inviting a lot of different people into the space.” “It helps people to see that we put on a whole range...
More and more, workers can barely afford to keep it. In recent years, most people have seen larger chunks of their paychecks going to health-insurance premiums. Indeed, premiums have increased 10 times faster than incomes, according to a study released by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation last Wednesday. In 2005, the average American family paid 30% more for health coverage than it did in 2001, while incomes rose only 3% in the same period. In dollar figures, that's a $2,500 price increase each year. What's more, the study found, the number of private companies offering health...
Where is the threshold of embarrassment about smells, sexuality, and defecation? This fall, history professor Walter L. Johnson will seek to answer this question in his new course, “Bodily Functions: The History of Bare Life and Biopower.” Johnson said that those who enroll in his seminar will work through various approaches, including Marxism, cultural anthropology, post-modernism, and feminism to study different topics on the history of the body, “The idea is to think in a suggestive rather than exhaustive manner about the way that historians and social theorists have thought...
...Moyers, who seems to be spending the rest of his life over-atoning for his service as Lyndon Johnson's Vietnam spokesman, occasionally betrayed an anachronistic liberal masochism in the interview. Indeed, Wright tried to balance his "God Damn America" sermon with the acknowledgment that you can say that sort of thing in America, "whereas some other places, you're dead if you say the wrong thing about your government." But instead of saying, "Amen, brother," Moyers replied, "Well, you can be almost crucified for saying what you've said ... in this country...