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Word: asks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2000
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...college does everything from hiring Rosemont's principal to wiring its classrooms to giving its students their annual immunizations. Result: last year more than 90% of Rosemont first-graders read at grade level or above. Says Frank Kober, a professor of education at Coppin State: "We had to ask ourselves, 'If we didn't help, who would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New College Try | 12/30/2000 | See Source »

...homage to Eugene Pallette, because I knew you'd ask. Because there was no movie in which he did not wear suspenders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: David Mamet | 12/25/2000 | See Source »

...during the Microsoft trial, as a covey of reporters gathered around Boies, one of the chief opposing lawyers, John Warden, wandered by and cracked, "Ask him about his wine cellar." Warden might have suggested the reporters also ask about the gorgeous Georgian home that sits above those 8,000 bottles in Westchester County, N.Y., or about the oceangoing yacht, the Northern California ranch, the high-stakes poker games, the nearly annual chateau-to-chateau bike trips in Burgundy and Bordeaux. If Boies doesn't dress in the usual plumage of a flamboyant trial lawyer, it's only because he doesn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Get Me Boies! | 12/25/2000 | See Source »

...with abandon; during our hours at the ranch, while his lead was slipping in the hand counts, he neither turned on the news nor checked in with his aides. When called with word of the Supreme Court stay, he chatted for only a few minutes and didn't even ask which Justices had ruled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Year of the Survivor | 12/25/2000 | See Source »

...ask us for reasons; we just liked it. As Clooney, who never radiated more star quality, opines, "It's a fool that looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Twelve Films Of Christmas | 12/25/2000 | See Source »

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