Word: squanderings
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Shakur is fiercely talented. He has an ear for tough-but-sweet tunes, an ability to write colloquially eloquent lyrics, and a husky, passionate delivery when he raps. The white power structure he denounces so vehemently must enjoy seeing him squander his gifts reifying its stereotypes of blackness--that is, if the white power structure thinks about him much at all. By leaving the lockup for the world of gangsta rap, he's just entered another prison...
...then getting inside the mind of presidential hopeful Steve Forbes means visiting a rarefied seat indeed. Imagine that you've won the prebirth lottery and entered the world destined to inherit $400 million and a publishing empire. What might you fear most? Losing your endowment. You might squander it through bad investments, of course, but that's something you can hope to control. Any money manager can tell you the real threats you face: taxes and inflation...
Personal curiosity is just one reason why I so badly want Anonymous to turn himself or herself in. Primary Colors is simply too good a novel for its author to squander a career in politics or government service. Words cannot describe how much I wish I had written...
...luck holds out and he doesn't squander his opportunity, Clinton could walk away with the big prize--a deal that reflects his essential beliefs and robs Dole of his premier campaign issue. House Republican leaders are contemplating a last-chance offer that could attract bipartisan support: cutting $155 billion in Medicare, providing targeted tax cuts worth $180 billion, fattening the pool of discretionary spending a bit to woo liberals, and then getting in line behind the Senate's more moderate welfare-reform plan. If that plan goes nowhere with Clinton, Republicans will try to spend the next two weeks...
...work, distributing condoms in the schools is wrong--one wonders why he has remained a Democrat as long as he has. He hints at the answer: "As fate had it, I had accumulated some small amount of influence in the ongoing Democratic dialogue. That was not something to squander." The result is a book that reads like a cynical proposal to land a big fat political consulting contract for the '96 election--and any candidate who heeds his words will...