Word: tellingly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...first argument. Now that we've lost, give us another chance, maybe we can come up with a new reason [for having fired Abramian],'" he said. "Neither Harvard nor any other employer should be rewarded for its own mendacity. The obligation on their part should be to tell the truth...
...This game was tough emotionally," Ides said. "There was a little let-down from last night, but it helped us get pumped up again. We wanted to tell everyone that we're not going to lose again. Everyone's going to try to take us out; we've just got to keep...
...secret to it is this: no one, least of all McCain, can tell you what it is. One of the neglected curiosities of this presidential-campaign season is how remarkably substantial and sophisticated it has been. The candidates have unloosed a blizzard of paper. There are fact sheets on child care, four-step plans to save Medicare, backgrounders on Medicaid reform and transportation subsidies and the tax code's deduction for dependent children. Down in Austin, Texas, Bush has assembled an entire shadow government of policy wonks to translate the gaseous cloud of his compassionate conservatism into the hard data...
...Sure, it's quite a bit of effort," Barnett says, "but not as much effort as having someone here. I can tell her when I have big problems that I need to talk about, but minor things I can deal with on my own and little things don't cause big problems in the relationship...
...ordering of events, cause and effect. Wiesel worries about saying too much, and though he is powerful and compelling, he is a distant writer. His books are not emotionally intimate. This is not a fault. But we need the intimate accounts too--the people who will go further and tell us more, who will provide us with the tools to imagine the survivors as our neighbors, even after they are gone. I do not think Wiesel would disagree...