Word: notionalism
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...recent time polls - a national survey and a sample of battleground states, including Missouri - support the notion that a sour and deteriorating economy is helping Obama close the deal with white America. The Wall Street crisis has driven Bush's approval ratings to new depths, and McCain, at the helm of Bush's gop, is struggling to escape the undertow. Nearly two-thirds of the 1,098 people sampled in the national poll said they personally are going backward economically. Among these anxious voters, Obama had opened a huge lead - some 25 percentage points - over McCain. Obama appears...
...caused Griffith's death were harshly punished without the use of any hate-crimes law. And if the very existence of a hate-crimes law is meant to placate minorities so they don't riot - a rather condescending notion - wouldn't it also exacerbate the anger among those close to the perpetrator, who would then be serving a longer sentence because of things he said during the crime...
...There is the notion that we can’t change the past, we can’t rewrite history,” Ulrich says. “Of course, the history that’s there was written by someone, and these are historical constructions. We constantly readdress the history of our own lives by the way we live...
...film, Kirsten Dunst asks Simon Pegg, after he steals her boyfriend’s seat at a crowded bar, “Do you know the meaning of karma?” He clearly does not, but after nearly two hours of such inane dialogue, any limited notion of karma should, at the very least, earn me a free lunch in the next life. “How to Lose Friends & Alienate People,” the movie adaptation of Toby Young’s memoir, stars Simon Pegg as Sidney Young, an obnoxious, Hollywood-obsessed Brit who lives above...
...Kenyan government contested that interpretation, saying GOSS stood for General Ordinance and Security Supplies - a division of the Kenyan Defense Ministry. But a South Sudanese government adviser, speaking on condition of anonymity on Thursday, rejected that notion. The adviser, a former fighter with the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA), told TIME that Kenya had agreed long ago to facilitate such arms deals for South Sudan. "I know they belong to us, to South Sudan," the adviser said in a telephone interview. "There was a deal between the SPLA and the Kenyan government that they facilitate everything. The destination...