Kamala Harris lost the presidential election, but one of her campaign slogans was vindicated in defeat. “We’re not going back!” the Democratic nominee insisted on the campaign trail, and she was unintentionally correct: Donald Trump’s return to power is proof that we have lived through a real turning point in history, an irrevocable shift from one era to the next.
Much of the opposition to his presidency was organized around this hope, and the election of Joe Biden seemed like vindication: Here was the restoration, the return of the grown-ups, normality restored.
Donald Trump’s criminal trial is nearing its denouement at last. The prosecutors’ star witness is due on the stand imminently, at which point their tale of the former president’s duplicity will start to cohere: https://econ.trib.al/9bkqIfF
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Mothers are often expected to carry the burden "of everything that is hardest to contemplate about society and ourselves". Jacqueline Rose's new book is a passionate polemic against that demand
Obama says Pakistanis knew about bin Laden
The university has not yet decided whether to rescind the award, says Allan Dittmer, executive director of the awards, which are named for an alumnus, H. Charles Grawemeyer, who endowed the honors. Mortenson, a Nobel Peace Prize nominee for the past couple of years, remains a very popular figure among the thousands who have contributed to the CAI and to his Pennies for Peace campaign, which encouraged American schoolchildren to contribute loose change toward the author's Afghan and Pakistani goals. President Obama gave $100,000 from his own 2008 Nobel Peace Prize award to the CAI. "A bazillion questions are surfacing, and I'm guessing those will be looked into very carefully," Dittmer told TIME. "We'll wait to see if he's vindicated, and if not we may have to make a tough decision."
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漫畫來源: Ted Goff
By STEVEN LEE MYERS and SUI-LEE WEE
It censors online expression, but it has also taken a hard line against fake news, hacking and deception.
By CRISTINA NEHRING
Reviewed by KATIE ROIPHE
Cristina Nehring’s literary and historical enquiry into the nature of love is an ardent polemic for a more difficult, vital image of passion she feels we have lost.Reviewed by KATIE ROIPHE
All the papers lead with news that President Obama will announce new standards for automobile emissions and increase fuel-efficiency targets. The new regulations will mark the first time that the government will set rules on automobile emissions and combine it with fuel-economy standards. The rules would require new cars and light trucks sold in the United States to average 35.5 miles per gallon by 2016, four years earlier than required under federal law that was passed in 2007. The Wall Street Journal declares that the move "would accelerate the largest government-mandated transformation of vehicles on the American road since the late 1970s and early 1980s." The Los Angeles Times calls it a "potentially pivotal shift in the battle over global warming" as well as "a vindication of California's long battle to toughen standards."
For Mr. Zumthor, 65, winning the Pritzker, which is awarded annually to a living architect and regarded as architecture’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize, is a kind of vindication. “You can do your work, you do your thing, and it gets recognized,” he said in a telephone interview from Haldenstein, the Swiss village where he lives and works.
illing whales only way to measure weight loss: Japan
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
JAPANESE scientists are claiming vindication for their controversial lethal research whaling with a discovery that Antarctic minke whales are fast growing ...
Last summer, when the prime minister handled a series of minor crises reasonably competently, he seemed able to turn floodwaters into wine. His long, scheming wait for the top job appeared to have been triumphantly vindicated.
polemic
pəˈlɛmɪk/
noun
- 1.a strong verbal or written attack on someone or something.
"his polemic against the cultural relativism of the Sixties"
synonyms: diatribe, invective, denunciation, denouncement, rant, tirade, broadside, attack, harangue, verbal onslaught; More
adjective
- 1.another term for polemical.
vindicate
ˈvɪndɪkeɪt/
verb
past tense: vindicated; past participle: vindicated
- clear (someone) of blame or suspicion.
"hospital staff were vindicated by the inquest verdict"
- show or prove to be right, reasonable, or justified.
"more sober views were vindicated by events"
verb [T]
1 to prove that what someone said or did was right or true, after other people thought it was wrong:
The decision to include Morris in the team was completely vindicated when he scored three goals.
The investigation vindicated her complaint about the newspaper.
2 to prove that someone is free from guilt or blame, after other people blamed them:
[R] They said they welcomed the trial as a chance to vindicate themselves.
vindication
noun [S or U]
The army's victory is being seen as (a) vindication of their tactics.
floodwater
(flŭd'wô'tər, -wŏt'ər)
n.
The water of a flood. Often used in the plural.
Dresden University Trains Floodmasters
A heavy rain turned the Elbe River in Eastern Germany into a wild torrent in August 2002 and the damage done was gigantic. Back then, scientists said that floods like this don't occur more than once every 500 years.
Some people said cynically that the scientists were the only ones not to suffer - in a way they even benefited from the catastrophe. Research assignments brought in a lot of money. Academia also benefited from a new course of study called "Floodmaster" at the University of Dresden, a city that had been hit especially hard by the flood.
Living Planet travels to Dresden to find out what new skills aspiring floodmasters acquire in the course of their studies. (Reporters: Christian Forberg/ Andreas Ziemons)
就像 sushi master (參考本欄 link 到 reading) 可不要將 master翻譯成"大師" ......
bazillion
n. an indefinite, enormous number. Ernie gave me a bazillion good reasons why he shouldn't do it.
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