Word: tilts
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...fair is both a world apart and the world in miniature, sharply distilled (if slightly distorted), where the earnest industry of the 4-H pavilion exists alongside the low appetites of the funnel-cake stand and the thrill seeking at the Tilt-A-Whirl. Where the three stages of life are marked by a first sno-cone, a first French kiss and a first ribbon for baking Bundt cakes...
...sympathize with any of my Internet readers who also still love the paper half of the news, we can pretend that my article was written on the back of a real postcard, and let’s say the picture on the front was a war memorial statue. Then tilt your laptop to the size, fold the screen a bit, and pretend you are holding a newspaper...
What went up, came down. The tilt of population to the Sun Belt left New York in third place behind California and Texas; soon it will be tied with Florida. New York City is still rich and glutted with media, but other cities have made their mark--CNN is headquartered in Atlanta, Google in Mountain View, Calif. The stars of Hollywood are bigger political lightning rods than New York's news anchors and talking heads, while imperial Washington is not just a barracks for politicians and a trading floor for lobbyists but also a center of think tanks and policy...
...more onerous policies inside the territories, and about the Quartet's decision to cut off aid to the Palestinians after Hamas' election victory, the White House shunned his advice as too pro-Palestinian and left him dangling. Eventually, he quit. If Blair starts to challenge Washington's pro-Israeli tilt - which Arab officials say is crucial to unknotting the Israeli-Palestinian impasse - he could end up similarly sidelined. Blair may find that getting the Baron's dog to speak could be an easier task than getting the Israelis and the Palestinians to speak meaningfully to each other...
...Islamists of Hamas: Tel Aviv intelligence sources tell TIME that the U.S. is putting pressure on Israel to open up Gaza's sealed frontiers to allow in shipments of Israeli weapons to fortify Fatah. But many Israeli intelligence officers doubt that a last-minute infusion of arms could tilt the balance away from Hamas, and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says the Israeli military will not prop up Abbas' besieged troops...