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There never seems to have been a culture war about who's allowed to use the word redneck. But should someone from say, New York City, feel bad about using the term? I think there's a difference between laughing with and laughing at [people,] and I think that's why it's okay for me to do it. The whole thing started because that's all people called me. I'd go to work in New York and Chicago and people would be hanging around saying, "Foxworthy, you're nothin' but an ol' redneck from Georgia...
...Precious marks the first film to be affiliated with Perry's 34th Street Films, and in the case of Oprah it marks her biggest move yet to use her media empire in service of a film that doesn't feature her in the cast. Two years ago she stood behind The Great Debaters - a film that went on to gross only $30 million. She produced and co-starred in 1998's Beloved, 12 years after she was nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Oscar in The Color Purple. If Precious were to be crowned Best Picture next February, Winfrey could...
...moderate Republican with a degree in economics and an M.B.A. I was a career military officer and now work in the defense industry. I do not view myself as an extremist. I oppose Obamacare solely on policy and fiscal issues. Klein would be wise in the future to use less accusatory language in his writings. Bill Walters, Maitland...
...China "imagines" that the state of Arunachal Pradesh is part of its Tibet. That is a sinister use of the word. China does not imagine its territorial rights - it never recognized the demarcation of the border by the British - nor does it have any ambitions other than to take back what rightfully belongs to her. Icy Fok, Hong Kong
...like the analogy of a prison," says John Ging, chief of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Gaza, dispelling a description that many Palestinians themselves use. There is a tendency, he says, to view prisoners as deserving of their suffering for having committed some crime. "Nothing could be further from the truth... They're like you, if one morning, you woke and someone had transported you to a prison. What do you do? How do you cope with this? You're now imprisoned, in a prison, where you shouldn...