Word: portion
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...same weekend Fey spoofed the former beauty-pageant queen as bringing a flute for the "talent portion" of the debate, Real Palin was blowing a harsher tune. She cast Obama as a suspicious other--"not a man who sees America like you and I see America"--in a line of attack the Associated Press called "racially tinged." Fey's Palin hasn't set up mass viewers to see this side of her--not yet, anyway. It's not the funny, bumbling Sarah we know! We're conditioned to expect her to ask to "phone a friend," not accuse Obama...
...Defense of Wall Street The financial industry is under attack for the supposed greed that has taken place [Sept. 29]. A few CEOs made an ungodly amount of money but are just a small portion of those who work on Wall Street, most of whom are considered middle class. Those who got rich off the real estate boom haven't had to share any of the blame. So what if they made millions? So what if speculators were flipping houses without ever intending to move into them? So what if people took out numerous credit cards and bought homes they...
...film was created for a conservative audience, or if nothing else, a xenophobic, interventionalist, sexist, and racist one.With this conservative comedy in mind, I started thinking about the “liberal” approach to poking fun at conservative politics and society. This election has provided a healthy portion of such media, from heavyweights like The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, and Saturday Night Live, but there’s something remarkably different that sets their style apart from that of the conservatives. At the bottom of it all, what I think it comes down to is truth. More...
...judges] are trained to determine the meaning of texts which sometimes require historical inquiry,” Scalia said. “They are not trained to be moral philosophers.” The Justice’s remarks drew the warmest response during the question and answer portion of his lecture, as he employed humor to field the audience’s inquiries. When an audience member suggested that one could hypothetically own large pieces of weaponry under the ruling of the 2008 case District of Columbia vs. Heller, which upheld an individual’s right to bear...
...Forty years after the Six-Day War ended, we keep finding excuses not to act," Olmert says. "We refuse to face reality ... The strategic threats we face have nothing to do with where we draw our borders ... For a large portion of these years, I was unwilling to look at the reality in all its depth." Saying Israel would not attack Iran unilaterally to stop Tehran's nuclear program, Olmert scoffs, "Part of our megalomania and our loss of proportions is the things that are said here about Iran. We are a country that has lost a sense of proportion...