Word: overtness
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...According to a paper published in this month's Journal of Sports Economics, entitled "Pigskins and Politics: Linking Expressive Behavior and Voting," residents that show overt support for their favorite college football team, in the form of displays like flags on the front yard, are nearly twice as likely as non-fanatics to hit the polls on Election Day. To reach this conclusion, a group of economists at Auburn University used that football-fueled college town as a laboratory. The researchers trolled a county database to find the addresses for nearly 4,000 residences in Auburn, and then last September...
...painted by John Singer Sargent. Lowell, who served as president of Harvard for 24 years, is now infamous for his bigoted attitudes toward African-Americans, Jews, homosexuals, and other minorities. “In the stories of racial minorities of all kinds, ethnic minorities, Harvard has a history of overt discrimination,” Ulrich says...
...Hamman” and expect people to pay money for it. You just don’t. Though they might. The ideas and lyrics almost purposefully seem improvised, and thank God the Megapuss guys are gifted enough to make music with enough intentionality that it can support the overt humor.—Reviewer Ruben L. Davis can be reached at rldavis@fas.harvard.edu...
...Films, a faith-based unit of Sony BMG Music that has marketed the brothers' last two movies. "Sometimes people think to reach Christian audiences you just have a movie with no swearing in it and that's enough. It's not. In Sherwood's movies you have a very overt depiction of faith...
...Moines Register •overt hostility of McCain to questions by editors...