Word: tellingly
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Though the family says it has done nothing to turn the child against his father, relatives did not hesitate to tell him about the horrors of his native country whenever they had the chance--which may help explain the fear Elian is said to express when asked about seeing his father and returning to Cuba. Says a Miami child psychiatrist, who was asked by the Miami family to evaluate Elian but declined because he "didn't want to get sucked into the politics" of the situation: "Of course he's afraid of being reunited with his father--because...
...help when, in January, Juan Miguel saw the TV pictures of Elian, dressed in a crisp new school uniform, heading off to a private school run by a Cuban-American political leader. Cuban psychiatrists had advised the father to tell Elian during their regular phone calls that the boy was "on vacation" and that they would be reunited soon. But starting a new school put a lie to that promise, and the family seemed determined to drag the case through the courts. Juan Miguel pleaded with INS officials to speed up the process, and they complied--worried that with each...
...precious hours last Tuesday, you could actually tell truth from fiction. All those fish stories you'd heard in recent months, the ones about friends and office pals with multiple thousands invested in the likes of Qualcomm and JDS Uniphase--were they true? Were real people actually soaring with the highflyers the way you'd dreamed of doing yourself...
...PHILBIN asked contestant BRAD HERZOG, a freelance magazine writer, about his book States of Mind, an American travelogue released last year by a small North Carolina publisher. "I didn't go on the show to plug my book," says Herzog, who won $64,000, "but I was happy to tell 30 million viewers." Before the show aired, the book ranked No. 122,040 in sales on Amazon.com the following day, it rocketed as high as No. 7. "I got up into the world of John Irving and John Grisham," says Herzog. Expect the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire Book...
...chat, Norton deftly mimics the seductive Beatty stammer: "He said, 'I've been watching the stuff you're doing, and I think you're a lot like me. You're gonna be frustrated like I was, 'cause you're gonna want to do it yourself. I wanted to tell you, don't wait. 'Cause I waited too long. If you're gonna write and direct, just...