Word: problem
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Gusmorino says he is interested in figuring out constitutional remedies to this problem. One suggestion proposed at the committee's last meeting on March 22 was to allow non-council members to be voting members of council committees...
...Acting President since New Year's Eve, when Yeltsin's resignation effectively handed him election victory, Putin has not quailed or faltered in pursuit of victory in Chechnya. When Western officials complain about human-rights abuses, he politely but firmly explains that they do not understand the problem. "Chechnya," says Robert Service, a lecturer at Oxford University and author of an upcoming biography of Lenin, "is the military tip of a general political campaign against the license enjoyed by non-Russian republics to produce a firmly unified political system again...
...problem is not confined to the biggest cities. Jon Munnerlyn, 18, an African-American high school senior in Columbus, Ohio, says he gets stopped all the time: "I'm a big kid, tall," he says. "I get kind of nervous that every time I reach for my ID, there's a possibility that I might die." And in minority neighborhoods across the U.S., there's a good deal of ingrained suspicion. Says Ebony Garcia Williams, 17, a junior at Bedford Stuyvesant Outreach: "Little kids from five and six years old learn to hate the cops because they see what goes...
...have a problem exploiting my youth and my looks to sell my rhymes--but I don't want to push the sexual stuff to the forefront," she says. "I would rather push my MC skills. But if you do happen to notice that I look good or that I got bodacious ta-tas, that's all good...
...that is not the worst of it. Baseball's deepest problem is not attendance or ratings but silence. There is no talk. No interest. No buzz. On talk-radio sports, football and basketball are more talked about in their off-seasons than baseball is on-season. The ultimate humiliation is the sports networks' around-the-clock live coverage of the NFL and NBA drafts--right in the middle of the barely covered baseball season...