Word: neutrality
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...Qaeda's most hard-core agents in CIA custody, America's new spy chief seems less enthusiastic about the leeway his operatives have had. At a secret briefing for U.S. Senators on Oct. 26, a senior U.S. intelligence official tells TIME, Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte was pointedly neutral on Vice President Dick Cheney's Capitol Hill lobbying to have the CIA exempted from legislation banning mistreatment of detainees. "It's above my pay grade," the spymaster said, then artfully dodged another question about whether the harsher interrogation tactics Cheney wants the agency to be free to use actually...
...her” no longer suffice, a person can only shy warily away from the shudder-inducing “it” and mumble inaudibly. Has political correctness finally exhausted the capacities of the English language? Wesleyan University has turned to a gender-neutral alternative: “ze.” “Students use it to refer to people who have requested it as their pronoun,” Zach Strassburger, a member of the Weseleyan Trans/Gender Group, wrote in an e-mail. “They are mostly but not entirely students who identify...
...violate state election laws and money laundering, felony counts that forced him to step aside as majority leader. Largely responsible for the successes of our legal system in the case of Libby is special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald, who has done a superb job of conducting a fair and neutral investigation into the leak of Plame thus far. Compared to the viciously partisan investigation of former President Bill Clinton by Kenneth Starr in 1999, Fitzgerald has maintained an air of professionalism and has not let partisan pressure get in the way of his investigation. He has been thorough...
...country's getting noticed all over the world now, and fashion's part of that," he says. His use of color (which his p.r. nicely describes as "ethno-fluorescence at its best") also comes as a relief in a global fashion scene perennially hung up on blacks, grays and neutral tones - and to a sneaker market that still prioritizes functionality and athletic performance, even though most of us wear sneakers anywhere but the track. "I'm trying to make people curious again," says Arora. That much seems assured. Just try wearing the shoes shown here...
...color (which his p.r. nicely describes as "ethno-fluorescence at its best") also comes as a relief in a global fashion scene perennially hung up on blacks, grays and neutral tones?and to a sneaker market that still prioritizes functionality and athletic performance, even though most of us wear sneakers anywhere but the track. "I'm trying to make people curious again," says Arora. That much seems assured. Just try wearing the shoes shown here...