Word: accents
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...trusted cadres were given special access to visit model schools, hospitals and farms. A few far-left organizations have kept this tradition alive today by organizing friendship brigades to Cuba and North Korea. By fabricating my identity - I grew a mustache, changed my hair and clothes, adopted a foreign accent and got a second passport from a small, inoffensive European country - one of these groups let me in. I got my visa. (See pictures of Bill Clinton's North Korea rescue mission...
Improved production methods are now helping win back drinkers. Traditionally, brewers made nonalcoholic beer by evaporating or filtering out alcohol from the real thing. Jeff Evans, author of the Good Bottled Beer Guide, says this process often resulted in beers with a distinct "industrial accent." Today, producers like Cobra - sales of its nonalcoholic brand Cobra Zero rose 21% in the U.K. in the year to March - lightly ferment their beer mix, creating only a tiny amount of alcohol. "Beers brewed this way tend to be sweeter and a little fuller-bodied," says Evans, "because nothing has been stripped...
...flight from London shortly before the vote, I fit the profile of the state's narrative too well. The machinery had little choice but to check up on me, its logic dictating the visits by paired government men curious to know what an "Iranian-American with a foreign accent" was up to. Don't worry, a friend assured me, they're professional. These guys won't waste their time if there's nothing there. It's how they've stayed in power for 30 years. (Watch TIME's video "An Iranian Protest March in Paris...
McCarthy wanted the mayor to get back to his day job. "I grabbed my chiefs and said, 'Look what the mayor has to do to raise his comfort level,'" McCarthy says in his thick Bronx accent. "'Why aren't you guys making sure that he's not uncomfortable?'" Whether the cameras, Booker's patrols or the Policing 101 measures instituted by McCarthy - moving more officers to night and weekend shifts, when, get this, crime is more likely to happen - were most responsible for the turnaround, the results are stunning. Murders dropped 36% in Newark - from 105 to 67 - from...
...sure to get the crowd involved, rambling between songs like someone’s drunk uncle at Thanksgiving dinner. It’s easy to take Joel lightly, especially when he’s attacking bugs with a giant yellow fly swatter, putting on an awful mock-New England accent, and commiserating with the people in the nosebleeds (“You probably paid way too much for those shitty seats”). But as Danny pointed out, Billy’s laid-back attitude is carefully constructed, just like his songs. In numbers like the epic...