Word: trumping
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...What's your beef with Donald Trump? -Owen Murphy, PhiladelphiaDonald always picks on people, and a lot of them aren't in a position to stand up to him. I couldn't care less about the guy, so when I stand up to him, I am standing up for all the people who are afraid to. He's all show...
...same for the Oscars. Barnett has joined the board of the celebrity-heavy Environmental Media Association (EMA), which is a nonprofit Shaklee distributor (every purchase earns the EMA a donation). And those parties Sloan Barnett threw? They were attended by people with last names like Rockefeller, Seinfeld and Trump...
...this was thousands of years ago, so who knows.” According to Irene Lucile Garcia Newton, the House race relations tutor who organized the event, Sassanfar’s results were in line with the purpose of the evening. “The goal was to trump assumptions that you can tell where someone is from by how they look, when clearly that isn’t true,” Newton said. “The goal was to educate people about race and genetics, and to get people talking about sensitive issues, which is always difficult...
...national trends, are microcosms of our political system. Political junkies shake their heads over a sound-bite driven media, fat cats’ hands in politicians’ pockets, and incumbents growing bedsores in their Senate seats. But sometimes, fresh ideas and a good pair of tennis shoes trump conventional wisdom and win elections...
With the grace of aGinsu-knife salesman, Donald Trump mixes advice--"Go with your gut" and "When somebody screws you, screw them back in spades"--with self-aggrandizing outbursts, like declaring that his dealmaking is so superb he "could negotiate peace in the Middle East." He is echoed only somewhat less obnoxiously by his co-writer, Bill Zanker. Thankfully, Trump stops short of listing the powerful women he claims to have slept with. "If I did, this book would sell 10million copies," he says, adding smugly, "maybe it will anyway." Unfortunately, he's probably right...