Word: sectioning
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...Love Affair With America," however, the tone is nostalgic, occasionally tender and only intermittently combative. It's a lovely book, and sometimes funny. Podhoretz, growing up poor in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, spoke with such a fierce Brooklyn accent that after he told a teacher "I goink op de stez" ("I'm going up the stairs"), he was placed in a remedial English class that left him speaking English of accentless, place-neutral gentility. He credits this development with much of his later success (Columbia University, Oxford, his long career among the New York intellectuals). The family back...
...think I'm kidding, but I'm not. Although the IBSTSR exists only in unspoken association, tall people are uniting. They have taken to forming clubs, as I read in Tuesday's Washington Post. An article in the metro section ("Metro" section. Coincidence? I think not) said that there are a combined 150 members in the Washington and Baltimore Tall Clubs, and that there are 65 chapters worldwide of Tall Clubs International...
TIME senior writer RICHARD LACAYO always seems to have one foot in our Nation section and the other in the Arts section. Those realms meld this week in his story on Frank Gehry, as Lacayo sizes up the architect's artistic and social impact. Not exactly a hardship assignment, the story required him to visit Gehry-designed structures across the globe, including those in Seattle as well as in Barcelona and, of course, Bilbao, Spain...
...perfect example of all the things reality websites can do that reality TV can't. For one thing, it's interactive; you can talk to Aimee while you watch her. For another, it's stuffed full of personal scribblings, such as her daily diary and "Freak of the Week" section, featuring her nuttiest e-mail--which consists mostly of drooling idiots asking her to get naked...
...ZANU-PF did best in the countryside, where it?s demagoguery over land-reform struck a deep chord among section of the rural poor. But the party was roundly trounced in the urban areas (and even many rural constituencies) where voters viewed the government's sudden interest in "redistributing" white farms as a cynical attempt at exploiting rural misery to deflect attention from its own legacy of corruption, catastrophic economic mismanagement, military misadventures and violent suppression of dissent...