Word: skinful
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Amazing, isn't it, how many career politicians who run for President seem uncomfortable in their own skin. Thirty years in public life didn't help Bob Dole, Al Gore or John Kerry sell themselves to the American people. They came across as cranky or boring or stiff, and voters chose the man (Bill Clinton, George W. Bush) who could convincingly play the good ol' boy with southern or Southwest charm. John McCain, who'd been so funny and sunny with his press gang on the Straight Talk Express, turned crotchety in the general campaign and lost to another Harvard...
...everything from the June cover of Vanity Fair, where precocious Disney Channel star Miley Cyrus posed with her back exposed, to a recent encounter with actor Daniel Radcliffe of the Harry Potter franchise and Broadway’s Equus. Radcliffe, unlike Cyrus, was prepared to bare a little more skin...
...instinctively note other physical features, like eye shape or the texture of her hair. These visual markers could easily escape someone who has grown up in an environment with few or no South Asians—someone who has never before had to look beyond hair color or general skin tone as a defining visual feature. Errors of identification usually spring from thus approaching all ethnicities with the same observational focus, from race blindness...
...Rudy: Organize This! Joe Klein's "Passing the Torch" was a tonic for me [Nov. 17]. During the Republican National Convention, when Rudy Giuliani sneered that he didn't even know what a community organizer is and Sarah Palin - with sarcasm that made my skin crawl - remarked that she guessed that a "small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities," the insult was personal and deep. For the first time in my life, I donated financially to a political campaign - Obama's. My mother, a beloved longtime community organizer, has been gone...
...General of the United Nations, and now Obama is the first African-American President of the United States. My pride is not because these men are African like me, it's because mankind now sees the folly of racism, and people are judged not by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character. Stories like Obama's make people see the greatness of America. America's greatness is not projected when she attacks pariah states which do not threaten her and I am confident that President-elect Obama holds this view. Kodwo Amissah Benyi, LOUIS TRICHARDT...