Word: manness
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...West—know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy.” We cheered with the crowd. I kissed her cheek. “This is the price and promise of citizenship.” A young black man was in front of me with his friends. At the end of the speech, we hug. I don’t even know him, and never will speak with him again. We just say, “Obama, man, Obama.” From the Mall, the sea of humanity dispersed...
...five more steps—get to the ubiquitous actor Kevin Bacon. In 2007, two Vanderbilt professors set out to find Bacon’s legal scholar analogue: someone famous who collaborates often in a variety of genres and who gives no sign of slowing down anytime soon. The man they selected is today’s most frequently cited legal scholar in America, the author of over 500 works including more than 15 books, a constitutional law expert whose interests range from how public policy can improve one’s life to how the online coalescence of like...
...spent four years at Rocky Mountain National Park and one year at Mount Rainier. I did all kinds of things, I was what they called a utility ranger. I did trail patrol work, I trapped bears, I blew beaver dams, I was a speed cop, I was a garbage man. It was a wonderful job- hell, I would have paid to have done what I did there. But I didn't have any money, so I was glad when they paid me instead...
...doctor makes an incision in a man's scrotal sac and, deftly wielding his scalpel, quickly removes both testicles. In the Czech Republic, that simple operation is the punishment for male sex offenders. But to the Council of Europe, the region's leading human-rights body, the procedure is "invasive, irreversible and mutilating." In a report issued last week, the council called the punishment "degrading" and demanded it be scrapped immediately...
...social," the city built the complex in a former municipal funeral parlor at the center of the troubled Flandres neighborhood - a melting pot of 30 different ethnic groups, with a 20% unemployment rate and over 60% social housing. After hearing about 104 from a French photographer friend, Tricky - the man behind the 1990s music revolution known as trip-hop - decided to come to Flandres in January and launch a project to seek out and record young local talent...