Word: towardness
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...control. The study also looked at several broader political tendencies, including compromise (the willingness to yield to a middle-ground solution) and obedience (the tendency to follow a set path), and found that people who were more sensitive to threat were less amenable to the former and more inclined toward the latter...
...chief who tries to keep a lid on things. All suspense and mystery in the thriller builds up but quickly deflates as the plot retraces past events without illuminating important details. “Righteous Kill” seems to slow down just so it can speed up again toward a lukewarm climax. The final twist is less shocking than it is groan-inducing. There are only a few good things to be found in the extremely mediocre movie experience that is “Righteous Kill”. At the beginning of the movie, De Niro and Pacino trade...
...unclear to what extent Tsvangirai will be able to exercise power over economic restrictions and to what extent Zimbabwe will take positive steps toward following the current power-sharing agreement. Tsvangirai standing alongside Mugabe, however, represents in itself a tentative removal of the handcuffs that have checked foreign assistance. In its last several months in office, the Bush administration must seize this opportunity to take a strong, positive stand in foreign policy and finally help Zimbabwe assume its position as an African democracy with a hopeful future...
...this policy suddenly. Instead, the admissions office should announce now that it will stop considering private-school students five or six years from today. This will allow students who are currently enrolled in private school to get their shot while still pushing wannabe members of the Class of 2017 toward public institutions...
...teenage population had a noticeable shortage of Arthur Fonzarellis. And even if “Happy Days” is a terrible example of rebellious art, it is indicative of how Westerners take issues of conflict and rebellion in their art for granted. On top of a storied disinclination toward disestablishmentarianism, today’s China is a country in which social protests go unreported and family members routinely and quietly disappear. The longer I was there, the more the Fonz started to look like Sid Vicious.So how do the kids get their kicks on the mainland? Well, most...