Word: planking
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...loudest cracks yet to ring out from Sarkozy's bipartisan plank of "ouverture" came Tuesday morning, when Secretary of State for Urban Affairs Fadela Amara lashed out at controversial immigration legislation awaiting final passage in parliament. If everything goes exactly to schedule, the law is expected to be passed on October 23. Amara used the undiplomatic term "degueulasse" - combining elements of "sickening" and "disgusting" - to describe an article of the law introducing DNA testing of certain new foreign residents to France and the storage of that data. Amara similarly denounced the law for allowing race to be noted in census...
Should Pirates Walk the Plank...
...hawks can fly. This one can do a heart-stopping double somersault in midair and then land on a tiny, moving plank of wood. But ask Tony Hawk, 18, what it takes to pull off an inimitable skateboard stunt and he blithely answers, "You just get the courage up and do it." That combination of aggressive athleticism and laid-back languor?lassitude with attitude?has propelled the lanky 6-ft. blond from Carlsbad, Calif., to the front of the professional skateboarding pack. Hawk (his real name) has won all three of the National Skateboard Association titles previously awarded...
...Republicans, on the other hand, are braced for battle. That plank adding the children of illegal immigrants to the healthcare plan? Doomed, they say. Costly programs that rely on new taxes or financial schemes that balloon the current $5 billion structural deficit? Forget about it. "To the extent that he wants to pursue an aggressive agenda that includes profligate spending, he's going to encounter lots of opposition from Republicans," says Jon Fleischman, publisher of FlashReport an online digest of poitical news, commentary and blogs targeted to the California G.O.P...
...Olmert's management of the Lebanon War continues to be intensely criticized. The main plank of his election campaign - the promise to withdraw roughly one third of West Bank settlers and the consolidation of the rest behind an expanded security barrier - has been put in the deep freeze by the crises in Lebanon and Gaza. Questions have arisen about the propriety of a real estate deal he made years ago. And he's generating further controversy by seeking to bolster his shaky ruling coalition through courting a far-right political faction leader, Avigdor Lieberman, who has called for the forced...