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Britain has long prided itself on its understatement as a national characteristic ...

General Motors on Monday came up with a new way to describe being fired: You're unallocated. The automaker announced it would cease production at five plants in the U.S. and Canada and sack up to ...

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The pictures have been coming out of Gaza for weeks--not the regular pictures of buildings falling in, smoke billowing to the sky, people fleeing gunfire. The new pictures are of small children, ...

'Authorization for the use of military force' just the latest example. Let's call it what it is. President Obama recently asked Congress to support his efforts to defeat the brutal Islamic State. What ...

Historically, euphemism has been correlated to fear or superstition. For example, often times we hear death referred to as passing away; while death is inevitable, avoiding direct reference to it both ...