Word: wakes
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...Chinese side: mainland textbooks omit anything that casts the Communist Party in a bad light, glossing over, for example, the horror of the Cultural Revolution. Japan's wartime atrocity thus stands out starkly as the great injustice of China's modern history. And with nationalist education increasing in the wake of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, says Kingston, "younger Chinese know a lot more about their unhappy shared history with Japan than their elders...
...sexual-abuse scandals. We were tired of wondering to which lawsuits our contributions were being directed as a payout to another victim. Now priests, as you describe, are "living as hedonistically as Renaissance Popes" by stealing from the contributions made by their parishioners. When will the church wake up and allow priests to marry, so they can enjoy life with a companion as God and nature intend...
...huge chunks of ice and leaving golden-boy Mayor John Hickenlooper with a mile-high mound of woe. Seems that the city's snowplow corps didn't have enough muscle to handle the Buffalo-level cleanups. The response from ticked-off locals and the city-council president: "Hey, Mayor, wake the *&^%^@# up, will...
...where you can say, “Oh, it took me 10 hours a week.” I’m constantly on call. If I had to highlight one activity that represented the job, it’d be responding to e-mails. I’d wake up in the morning to 30 e-mails from the Pudding travel agent, publicists, and venues. I had to make sure the after-party went smoothly, the lunch, the dinner, and making sure we had venues for those. In that sense, it was an odd job because it encompasses...
...even cheerful, making listeners cry out for more passion and grit. But it is important to recognize Marsalis’ daring. “From the Plantation to the Penitentiary” is a risky move that should attract heightened controversy. This is his first album made in the wake of the devastation Hurricane Katrina brought to his hometown. The deep disenchantment that followed seems to have driven him to seek to do even more with his existing musical style, whatever the consequences...