Word: teas
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...hyperbolic hullabaloo comes in both red and in blue. Too often, when Republicans speak on themes of responsibility, the Democrats become the free-living party. Too often, when Democrats speak on themes of responsibility, Republicans become the tea party. At some time or another, each party has shirked the obligation of being the party of obligation...
...brims with compassion. He explains, “If I were able (by means of a deeper covenant than that which exists between author and reader) to fall to people’s necks and say to them ‘Come, let’s sit while the tea is steeping, then drink, and you’ll tell me about your lives and I will tell of mine,’ I’d toss this manuscript into the trash and do precisely that. In such a world the law would forbid the making of fiction...
...looking at a concept as old as the Republic. Ever since colonists in Boston refused to buy British tea, Americans have wielded their economic clout as a weapon against - and, sadly, sometimes for - social injustice. In the U.S., the power of the purse is the most democratic power of all. The Quaker notion of doing well by doing good - popularized by Ben Franklin, the patron saint of social entrepreneurs - predated the predatory capitalism of the Gilded Age. Its revival is due in part to an Obama effect: as a presidential candidate, Barack Obama relentlessly touted green products and industry...
...Xavier, a regular customer at McCurry, agrees with its owners that the McDonald's suit has been unfair. "It is cold-hearted to try to put someone out of business simply because there is a resemblance in the name," Adissayam says. "I love this place ... it is clean, the tea is great, and I love the tosai [a pancake-like dish of ground rice...
...aspirant Tim Pawlenty called the speech "uninvited" and voiced concerns about its "content and motive." One school superintendent in Arizona, James Murlless, while calling Obama's education advocacy "well intended," said he preferred his students see it "in their own homes, under the supervision of their parents." The Nationwide Tea Party Coalition, a fiscal watchdog group that has become a sort of clearinghouse for conservative grievances since the anti-health-care-reform movement began, has revved up a campaign called "Hall Pass on That," urging parents to have their kids excused from watching the speech. In Oklahoma, state senator Steve...