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Weekend Words: Stab
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson defended himself this week against charges from the media that he did not try to stab another teenager in his youth.
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Weekend Words: Secret
Spectre, the 24th film in the "seemingly unkillable" (in the words of Manohla Dargis) James Bond franchise, opened this weekend, furthering the adventures of the most famous secret agent of them all.
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Weekend Words: Two
“Driven by fears that an aging population could jeopardize China’s economic ascent,” writes Chris Buckley in The New York Times, “the Communist Party leadership ended its decades-old ‘one child’ policy on Thursday, announcing that all married couples would be allowed to have two children.”
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Weekend Words: Run
Paul Ryan says he will (for Speaker of the House); Joe Biden says he won’t (for President).
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Weekend Words: Hush
Lest we forget scandals of Speakers past, this week Reuters reported that former House Speaker Dennis Hastert “has reached a deal with prosecutors and is expected to plead guilty to wrongdoing in a hush-money case, his lawyers told a federal judge in Chicago.”
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Weekend Words: Voice
In a switch, the Nobel Committee, citing her "polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time,” awarded its literature prize to the Belarusian journalist Svetlana Alexievich, best known for her 1999 nonfiction book Voices from Chernobyl.
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Weekend Words: Body
As Representative Kevin McCarthy (R-California) plots his strategy for winning the leadership of his body of Congress, it is worth recalling that he shares his name with the star of the 1956 sci-fi classic, The Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
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Weekend Words: Catch
On Tuesday, legendary wordsmith and Hall of Fame catcher Yogi Berra passed away at the age of 90.
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Weekend Words: Bully
Is Donald Trump a bully? It depends on who you ask.
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Weekend Words: Science
On Wednesday, Intel announced that it was “dropping its longtime support" of the Science Talent Search, "the most prestigious science and mathematics competition for American high school students,” according to the New York Times.
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Weekend Words: Stumble
Last week an unfortunate 12-year-old boy stumbled into a 17th-century Baroque painting by Neapolitan artist Paolo Porpora, and this week Jeb! Bush continues to stumble in the wake of Death Star Trump.
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Weekend Words: Plunge
Some call it a plunge, some call it a correction, some call it the end of the world. The global economy grips its seat as the stock market slide rattles nerves for a second week in a row.