Word: partiality
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...country's communist party. By the 1960s, he had switched from propaganda to Pop Art. Toward the end of his life - disenchanted by Suharto's right-wing regime and shunned by leftist artists who felt he had betrayed them - Sudjojono turned inward, experimenting with Expressionism and drawing partial inspiration from Balinese folklore...
...Partial Verdict The embattled jury in the Reginald Denny trial told Judge John Ouderkirk they had decided on nine counts against two black defendants but were deadlocked on seven others. Ouderkirk will tell the panel this week whether to continue deliberations...
...they entered it. Hurley initially denied landing on top of Doomadgee, but later testified that he must have - this could be the only explanation for the Aborigine's fatal wounds. A drunken detainee in the station at the time, Roy Bramwell, told investigators he'd later had a partial view of Hurley pummeling Doomadgee. In his summing up at the trial in Townsville, prosecutor Peter Davis scoffed at the idea that a man could land on another with sufficient force to "cleave his liver in two almost across his spine" and not have the faintest idea that he'd caused...
Friedman, who favors black cowboys hats and western wear, is partial to black dogs. "The Friedman [dogs] are all mutts, poi dogs as they call them in Hawaii," Kinky says of his own five dogs - Mr. Magoo, Perky, Chumley, Fly and Brownie (the lone brown dog in the bunch). "The only thing wrong with having four black dogs and one brown dog is when I get up to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night, I stumble over them," Friedman says...
...personal responsibility were calculated to win over socially conservative whites who were turned off by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's tirades against persistent racism. But in his desire to appeal to such voters, Obama may have missed the balance that King maintained. Personal responsibility is a crucial, but only partial, answer to what ails black families. Huge unemployment, racist mortgage practices, weakened child-care support, stunted training programs for blue-collar workers who've been made obsolete by technology, and the gutting of early-childhood learning programs are all forces that must be combated. If we rightly expect more black...