Word: spokenness
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...unruly affairs: The run-up to the national poll of January 22 has already seen demonstrations, riots, soldiers on the street and the threat of a boycott by one of the two main political parties. It doesn't help that the leaders of those two parties haven't spoken to each other in years. Or that Bangladesh is one of the most corrupt countries in the world according to Transparency International. Still, last week while reporting on the elections in Bangaldesh's capital Dhaka, I came across an interesting use of technology that should help keep the politicians honest...
DIED. Lamar Hunt, 74, soft- spoken oil heir who founded the American Football League; in Dallas. Hunt enlisted fellow millionaires to start a new league in 1960, after the NFL refused to sell him a team. He became owner of the Dallas Texans and in 1963 moved the team to Kansas City, where it became the Chiefs. Hunt later coined the term Super Bowl for the big, season-ending match (the name came to him while he watched his daughter play with a Super Ball) and co-founded pivotal soccer groups, including the North American Soccer League and today...
...with the support of other European powers eager to have a neutral buffer between France and the German principalities. The southern region of the country was for more than a century the richer part, with steel mills, coal mines and the cultural hegemony of the French language; the Flemish spoken in the north was considered little more than a peasant patois. But since the Second World War, Flanders has moved ahead, with higher income, lower unemployment and a more dynamic economy than its southern neighbor. The differences range from social security to birth rates to cultural proclivities, and there...
...girls about the history of feminism, which ended in a standing ovation and one girl coming up to her and saying, “I never thought feminism was cool, but I do now.” In these travels and others, she estimates that she’s spoken to a total of 5,500 girls. As a women, gender, and sexuality studies concentrator, she is writing her thesis on the campaigns of female gubernatorial candidates. Nowski also serves on the national board of Strong Women, Strong Girls, a mentoring program dedicated to empowering girls, and is a peer...
...rest of New Hampshire is likely to start hearing more of Obama's hope-based message soon. Obama is supposed to spend the holidays in his native Hawaii weighing his 2008 decision. According to people who have spoken to him, he's weighing family considerations, but also more practical ones, like how he could build a campaign infrastructure that could rival that of Hillary Clinton and other potential candidates who have been preparing for a presidential run for years - as well as whether a losing campaign would hurt his political future. But those who have talked to him expect...