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...wouldn’t know it to listen to the Bush administration’s self-congratulatory rhetoric. In his last State of the Union address, President Bush announced a five-year, $15 billion initiative, marking a significant increase in U.S. AIDS spending. The initiative was a step in the right direction, and it received some deserved praise from AIDS advocates. Eager to make it a centerpiece of his “compassionate conservative” agenda, President Bush lauds the initiative every chance he gets. In his recent World AIDS Day Proclamation he called...
...display during Bush’s trip to London, Love Actually’s fictional press conference expresses an idealized vision of Anglo-American relations. Well, idealized as far as the Brits are concerned, anyway. America, in spite of being the world’s foremost superpower, should listen to the frank advice offered by its transatlantic allies. As one writer put it last year in The Spectator, a conservative British political magazine, Britain should play Greece to America’s Rome. While no longer in charge of an empire of their own, the Brits should continue to exert...
...trouble, they will all mob you at once. The acme of the manhunter's art is the silent, solo kill: wait patiently in the shadows, follow stealthily, then take down your prey from behind. Manhunt is as much an audio game as a video game: you have to listen carefully to track your foes through the dark, dank alleyways. Rest assured they will be listening...
...reading Ima Ningen Toshite by Takeji Hayashi, he was inspired to write a letter to its publisher, Komichi Shobo Co., saying the book awakened him to reading. That connection led to a job at the small company. At 28, Takei went independent, publishing in 1989 the best-selling compilation Listen to My Story: The Blue Hearts, My Love, the authors of which included Banana Yoshimoto. Takei had yet to even rent office space...
...Listen,” I said, “haven’t we got some Betty Friedan in the basement? And I know The Second Sex is down there somewhere. Or, I tell you what, I’ll just dash down and grab something by Gloria Steinem. You can hand it to them on their way out. We’ll evangelize. We’ll be like the feminist version of Jehovah’s Witnesses...