Word: performancy
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...inspire it as well as the nation. So the value of leadership skills outweighs that of experience. Given that Obama has managed to go from underfinanced outsider to the Democrats' front runner and leading fund-raiser, he evidently knows how to put together a great team and make it perform. That he has achieved that as a black man with a rather difficult surname suggests he can also overcome obstacles. Robert James-Herbert, Ruse, New South Wales...
...disclose private matters ranging from marriage to stock ownership. Everything except voting. Some refuse to vote at all-like Washington Post editor Len Downie, who told NPR, "I didn't want to take a position, even in my own mind" on elections. (To which I say, Anyone who can perform that kind of self-hypnosis should get into the lucrative smoking-cessation business.) More commonly, reporters vote but keep it to themselves. At the New York Times, even opinion columnists are forbidden to endorse candidates...
...good deal less visible--than its fight in Gaza. In the West Bank, Israel relies on a network of Palestinian collaborators and wide-scale arrests. Last year more than 6,650 suspected Palestinian militants were rounded up, among them, claim Israeli intelligence officers, 279 potential suicide bombers. (IDF troops perform another function in the West Bank. In effect, they prop up Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Without the presence of Israeli troops, his advisers concede, the West Bank would soon fall to Hamas militants, just as Gaza did last June...
...L.E.S. Artistes,” has a relaxed pace and silky sound. Its video, however, makes you wonder what exactly she was thinking when she made it. It starts with martial images of Santogold on horseback, flanked by two militant looking women in aviators and boots who perform jerky dance moves between close-ups on Santogold’s hardened features. It seems that this could go on forever, until an explosion of some sort occurs and the video grows ever stranger as the theme turns to violence. My guess would be that Santogold is parodying pervasive violent imagery...
Considering the recruiting controversy that has engulfed the men’s basketball team over the past few weeks, Chenoweth proves that athletes can still perform at the highest levels of sport and academia...