Word: explained
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...food. A few weeks ago, leading me around his sturdy brick house in Bridlington, a British seaside resort town not far from where Hockney was born, he's steaming. "You know that Hitler didn't smoke?" he asks suddenly, as though daring me to disagree that this alone might explain der Führer's lust for world conquest. Last fall on British radio Hockney debated Julie Morgan, the Labour Member of Parliament who spearheaded the ban. "Death awaits you whether you smoke or not," he warned her. "Pubs are not health clubs." As for New York City, now that...
...sand-volleyball court, a pair of heated lap pools and, for some reason, a ball pit with dozens of brightly colored plastic balls, like the one you throw the kids into at Ikea. The dress code? "You have to wear something," says Schmidt. And even he can't explain the (phoneless) London-style phone booth that stands in one hallway--"Who bought that?!" he wonders aloud, sounding like the sole sane person in a loony bin. Above all, there is Google's fetishistic devotion to food; the company serves three excellent meals a day, free, to its staff, at several...
...there is cause 10 times over for impeaching Bush. Shame on him, and shame on us if we let him get away with it. Karen Montgomery Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, U.S. The idea that the president can unilaterally transform legislation that Congress has passed by using a presidential signing statement to explain his actions is outrageous and contrary to the Constitution. No rational American wants the presidency to have such power. Mike Ford Austin, Texas, U.S. Andrew Sullivan's blog, the Daily Dish, can be found at time.com. Telling Stories your report "the trouble with memoirs" described the controversy over how much...
...national security risk because Ramadan has condemned acts of violence by Islamic extremists and has been an advocate of interfaith dialogue. Eck suggested that Ramadan’s criticisms of American foreign policy, and his suggestion that certain prominent French Jewish intellectuals were inappropriately biased toward Israel, might explain the revocation of his visa. “If we’re going to start suppressing the kinds of speech Tariq Ramadan has engaged in, we’re going to have to suppress a great deal of the speech that’s very important to the political debate...
...neutral housing,” she writes in an e-mail to FM. Passing the TimeFew signs in the Mather suite hint at a male presence. The most obvious indication of Magnuson is, funnily enough, in the bathroom—a poem he posted in the stall. The roommates explain their tradition of displaying verse in order to “pass the time” while using the toilet.“Did you see the new one I put up?” Magnuson asks his roommates. He had posted a parodic poem he had titled?...