Word: relationship
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...class citizens in the United States has been shunted aside in favor of blanket accusations about the tolerance of violence and the cat-and-mouse game of political point-scoring. What was an opportunity for Americans, particularly politicians, to educate themselves about Puerto Rico's history and its complicated relationship with the United States, as well as about the status and treatment of Puerto Ricans in the United States today, has turned into yet another opportunity to point fingers, sling mud, and vilify a particular group of Americans...
...sheets of rain pelted the picture windows of his hotel room, Ma reflected on relations between his adopted homeland and the mainland, where he grew up, sketching out what he called "a special relationship...
...relationship between the People's Republic of China (the mainland) and the Republic of China (Taiwan) is one of "creative ambiguity," as the names suggest. For example, an airplane flight between Taipei and Beijing is neither domestic nor international, Ma said...
...RELATIONSHIP'S LEGAL HIGHLIGHT: In 1997 Copperfield filed a $30 million lawsuit against a French magazine that had suggested the union was a fraud...
BUILDING BLOCKS: Architecture, that least transportable of arts, has a back-scratching relationship with photography. The camera craves beauty; buildings crave an eye. And photographer Ezra Stoller's eye is among the best. The charm of his new series of books is that each volume carefully documents a building--e.g., Eero Saarinen's TWA terminal at N.Y.C.'s Kennedy Airport--as the architect wanted it, before remodeling or damage. Beauty and history...