Word: neos
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...long-time defender of cocaleros (coca growers) and an avid street protester, Morales finally achieved a popular majority leading MAS (Movement to Socialism), an acronym that also means “more” in Spanish. More is precisely what Bolivia needs, following dubious privatization contracts by previous neo-liberal administrations, rampant poverty, and the perennial White House-baked recipe of the “war on drugs.” Yet, a simple fact about Morales seems to be a flawless symbol of the ironic and illusory realities of this continent: he is the first Inca descendant to lead...
...become a fugitive just 40 hours earlier in New Bedford, Massachusetts, where he had entered the Puzzles Lounge and, after confirming that it was a gay bar, shot two men with a handgun and wounded a third with a hatchet. Authorities searched Robida's home and found neo-Nazi pamphlets and other hate literature aimed at racial and ethnic minorities. But the teenager was already speeding away in a green Pontiac, heading south and then west...
...conversations with arch neo-conservatives William Kristol and Richard Perle are exemplary of his evenhandedness: any revulsion the viewer might feel for these two is a response to their warped worldview, not to manipulative filmmaking or special effects trickery...
...most acclaimed nonfiction films of 2005. The Aristocrats is the deconstruction, by dozens of comedians, of the world's most notorious dirty joke. Why We Fight cogently analyzes the U.S. military-industrial complex. The Power of Nightmares provocatively compares the doctrines of al-Qaeda and the American neo-cons. Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man, a study of a wildlife activist's annual trip to commune with the beasts who finally tear him apart, is a kind of Brokebear Mountain, evoking human love and obsession. It shared the New York Film Critics' Circle award for Best Documentary with Herzog...
...circles after writing a New York Times op-ed piece on design in nature that resonated with intelligent design's claims against evolutionary theory. He told TIME last summer that he'd been encouraged by the then Cardinal Ratzinger in 2004 to pursue his doubts about what he calls "Neo-Darwinism" or the belief that evolution explains everything. "I believe in dogmas of faith but I don't believe in dogmas of science," Sch?nborn told TIME...