Word: solidness
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...Doom, Resident Evil, Alone in the Dark, Hitman and DOA: Dead or Alive, not to mention about a quillion Japanese animes (Pokemon and its brethren) - and a seemingly infinite number of VG adaptations to come: film versions such game franchises as God of War, Gears of War, Metal Gear Solid, Lost Planet, Prince of Persia, EverQuest, Mass Effect, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, the blessed Sims and, yikes, PacMan. (Can't wait for other retro movies based on the earliest video games: Frogger, Space Invaders and - some French minimalist director'll do it - Pong...
...reform, but he fails to tie it in with the rest of the book. Hosni Mubarak’s reign of almost thirty years falls under Traub’s category of a “liberal autocracy,” but while the U.S. has maintained a solid relationship with Egypt, it has not done much to foster democracy there. While this example does seem to speak to the idea that the Bush regime has failed to be egalitarian in their agenda to spread democracy, Traub never truly makes the connection. As a whole, “The Freedom...
...notion was burnished by a series of subsequent elections in which black candidates saw solid leads shrink or vanish once voters cast their ballots. In 1983, Harold Washington escaped with a narrow win in Chicago's mayoral election after being projected a decisive victor. In 1989, Douglas Wilder held a nine-point lead on the eve of Virginia's gubernatorial election, and won by less than one percentage point. That same year, David Dinkins' 18-point lead in New York City's mayoral race evaporated in the voting booths, though he still eked out a nail-biter over Rudy Giuliani...
...percent a year. The California state superintendent admitted he hoped that Congress would soften the federal law when it came up for reauthorization in 2007. But the law wasn’t softened, and the huge increases now required mean that many schools which have had solid records of improving test scores over the past six years have been put on probation and are threatened with losing funding if they continue to fall short of these unreasonable standards. Worse, the law affects each state differently and punishes those with rigorous exams. In a nod to states’ rights...
...door in my face.Welcome to Levittown, Pennsylvania, where every third house proudly bears an American flag, where “people are hurting,” but never so much that their front porches are not aggressively decorated for Halloween at least three weeks in advance, and where a solid majority of registered Democrats could never really support Barack Obama, at least not in public, at least not where the neighbors can hear.Last weekend, I joined the Harvard College Democrats on their canvassing trip to this relic of Americana. For two days, we knocked the doors of the people that...