Word: siding
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Obama and his advisers may realize that their best chance to win an argument on the issue is now, when racial-preference programs are represented by a popular President's nominee and the opposition to them is represented by Limbaugh. Each side will claim to speak in the name of ordinary people, plausibly...
Even now Roh remains a thorn in the side of his opponents. His devoted supporters blame the conservative administration of President Lee Myung Bak for driving Roh to his death. Prosecutors were investigating allegations of corruption against Roh (which he denied). For a man who professed to practice "clean" politics, the embarrassment was apparently too much to bear...
Across the country, most surveys indicate that the majority of people remain opposed to legalizing gay marriage--57%, according to a recent Gallup poll. But as cultural battlefields go, opponents are on the losing side of demographics. Nearly 60% of those under 30 favor gay marriage, compared with fewer than 40% of older people. On other issues as well, attitudes have evolved in the direction of equality. Today more than two-thirds of Americans think that gays should be allowed to serve openly in the military and that their partners should have access to employee benefits like health care. Even...
...tulku is a significant embarrassment to the group he was supposed to head, the powerhouse Foundation for the Preservation of the Monastic Tradition (FPMT), the foremost Tibetan teaching organization in the West. It also challenges Westerners who have adopted Buddhism to find more sophisticated ways of understanding its magical side...
...would like to see their government change its policy and provide financial support to the North still don't want to return to the old "sunshine policy" days of one-way concessions. They increasingly expect North Korea to reciprocate. "The North just keeps on demanding, but the other side has to give something back, right?" says Lim Chaery, a 22-year-old university student. North Korea "is like a whining baby, and there's only so much you can tolerate...