Word: vocalisms
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...instantly recognizable vocal talent, you went to Don LaFontaine, 68, who was The Voice - deep, whispery, authoritative - for some 5,000 Hollywood trailers. In a Geico commercial he is ID'd as as "that announcer guy from the movies" and famously intones: "In a world where both of our cars were totally underwater..." A nice guy, LaFontaine would do voice-mail messages for fans. He died of a collapsed lung...
...surprised that your "Top 10 Scandals" did not include Taiwan's former President Chen Shui-bian, a vocal advocate for Taiwan independence who has been indicted for alleged money-laundering and misuse of public funds. Such an apparent case of "absolute power corrupting absolutely" should be a lesson to all politicians. Cy Chen, Taipei...
...declined to 4% to 5% of GDP, there wasn't a lot more room to squeeze defense for higher domestic spending. Even with the end of our current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, it's most unlikely that we'd save as much as 2% of GDP, given the vocal demands for increases in military budgets...
...disenfranchised is long, from Jaime Cardinal Sin in the Philippines to the writer Pramoedya Ananta Toer in Indonesia. In Asia today, perhaps because the abuses wrought by current rulers are not as egregious as those of the Marcos or Suharto eras, activists tend to be less vocal. Yet unless members of civil society continue to defend their causes across the continent, the accomplishments of their predecessors are threatened. Luckily, pockets of idealism remain. In India, once marginalized groups like lower castes, tribal members and so-called forest dwellers today enjoy democratic rights they could scarcely have imagined a generation...
...surprised that your "top 10 scandals" did not include Taiwan's former President Chen Shui-bian, a vocal advocate for Taiwan independence who has been indicted for alleged money-laundering and misuse of public funds. Such an apparent case of "absolute power corrupting absolutely" should be a lesson to all politicians. Cy Chen, Taipei...