Word: mereness
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...Senator Barack Obama speaks of hope, and here is a generation of teenagers and twentysomethings finally listening and getting involved, realizing they can help shape the future. The hope Obama speaks of lies not only in the election of a new President but also in the mere fact that the youth of America care. They are our future leaders, and their political participation is just as important to the nation as the election itself is. Harmony A. Trevino, Program Coordinator, Hands of Hope, Cypress, California...
Senator Barack Obama speaks of hope, and here is a generation of teens and twentysomethings finally listening and getting involved, realizing they can help shape the future. The hope Obama speaks of lies not only in the election of a new President but also in the mere fact that the youth of America care. They are our future leaders, and their political participation is just as important to the nation as the election itself is. Harmony A. Trevino, Program Coordinator, Hands of Hope, CYPRESS, CALIF...
...admit he was much too nice to be a Republican and might run for President as an independent--or even as a Democrat. Democrats swooned and said they would vote for McCain because he was "honest." McCain is perceived as authentic, which is a deeper form of honesty than mere truth-telling. He says he's antiabortion? Oh, he doesn't mean that. Among current or recent figures in American public life, only Colin Powell shares McCain's mystical ability to make liberals believe he secretly agrees with them, no matter what he actually says. And Powell has to work...
...their moral or legal independence as “private organizations.” Their fundamental tie to the government—which, for example, allows primary election ballots to run alongside other state election issues—obligates these political parties to higher standards of democratic fairness than mere private institutions. They may not be government entities in name, but they are as influential. No viable presidential candidate has emerged from a third party since Theodore Roosevelt’s bid for reelection, and the last third-party candidate to win an election was Abraham Lincoln...
...women not be implicitly swayed by social norms: They must be free to accept or reject a given practice without harsh social repercussions. But in Turkey, a country with a population that is 99 percent Muslim, the immense societal pressure to be a devout and practicing Muslim goes beyond mere “peer pressure” to deeply influence the range of lifestyles women can conceive for themselves; moreover, once the practice wearing a headscarf becomes “normalized” by society, refusal to do so becomes a criterion for exclusion and harassment—something which...