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...People refer to President Obama as black, even though he is of mixed race. What language should we use? John Malick, LONDON...
...coined the term “soft power” to refer to the use of nonmilitary means such as cultural goods, diplomacy, and economic aid to attract allies to a cause. He later expounded on the policy in his 2004 book “Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics...
Scotland went into mourning mode; ten thousand people attended his funeral and he was later named national poet of Scotland. The Scots refer to him as "The Bard," others as "The Scottish Bard," to distinguish his nickname from Shakespeare's. And of course, there's Burns Night...
...complicated is that of Mohammed al-Qahtani, who allegedly helped plan the 9/11 attacks - he is sometimes described as the "20th hijacker." Bush Administration officials now admit that he was tortured, and Susan Crawford, the retired judge who is the convening authority of the military commissions, has refused to refer al-Qahtani's case to prosecutors...
...Hollywood, they sometimes refer to an omniscient but unseen narrator as a VOG, short for voice of God. Scourby was the leading VOG of his day, in documentaries like Victory at Sea and numerous commercials. His was the voice in the first ever recording of the entire Bible, made in the 1940s. At that time, it was as natural to assume that God spoke with a British accent as it was to assume that he had a beard - or, for that matter, that...