Word: outspokenness
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...today. It wants to remind us that the seemingly abstract issues these young people are grappling with had authentic, immediate and dangerous implications in their own lives. And that we are not all that far removed from a time in this country when simply being black, whether outspoken or invisible, was a highly risky business. The film may be manipulative in its construction, and cliché-ridden in some of the incidents it recounts, but it has a good, large heart. You could do worse, this holiday season, than to take your children to see this movie and encourage them...
Solution: Encourage honesty - and laugh "Interestingly, a lot of these [typical sibs] are more outspoken," says Levy of the Kennedy Krieger Institute. "They'll go up to people and say, 'Yes, that's my brother. He has special needs. Do you have any questions...
...accounts, Blocher, the most outspoken and controversial figure of the SVP, a populist rural party that has morphed into a national force, was not a team player. Throughout his regime he often acted in an "authoritarian way," says Thomas Fleiner, professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law at the Federalism Institute in Fribourg, even going as far as trying to "exclude members of his own party from various committees because they had not followed the party's official line...
...Monday Dec. 17, Nava admitted to writing the e-mail threats - "we are watching you all. we will destroy you... you will suffer," he wrote to himself and three other Anscombe members. Another recipient of the message: outspoken conservative politics professor Robert George, a member of President Bush's Council on Bioethics, who had taught Nava in two classes, written him a letter of recommendation and recently agreed to act as his academic adviser. He also confessed to fabricating the assault on himself. He inflicted his own wounds, pummeling himself on the face, scraping his head against a brick wall...
...nominate Al Gore. His outspoken commitment to ecological balance--An Inconvenient Truth--and global consciousness was inspirational and got me out of my incubation to sing for Live Earth in Hamburg earlier this year. Where on earth will the children play if we don't listen and do something now? He represents the cleaner image of American politics, the less imperialistic...