Word: asking
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...address the following to those who seek to improve the world. (How maddeningly absurd it is to imagine that I might have lost even one reader just now!) Today I want to express an impassioned plea for each of us to ask ourselves the following questions and to confront our answers earnestly: What would it take for me to unearth, scrutinize and grapple with my deepest motives in life? To reconsider those motives with the most sincere and penetrating will to critique and better myself? To emerge from this introspection with a more enlightened sense of what drives...
...Just ask Ezra R. Keshet, an Eliot House senior who, although registered to vote in nearby Newton, Mass., couldn't find the time yesterday to get to the polls...
...Wednesday, Netanyahu upped the ante. Briefed by Sharon, representatives of Jewish settlers, who oppose trading any land for peace, gave Netanyahu an earful. Netanyahu called American Jewish leaders to ask for backing if he abandoned Wye. "How can we make peace with an organization still calling for the liquidation of Israel?" he lectured. Members of the Israeli delegation placed their bags outside their quarters and issued a press release threatening departure. The threat was timed to make the morning papers back home (where Wye was judged so boring it no longer led the TV news). American officials figured Netanyahu...
...tried to take the easy way out by setting most of the new novel in Manhattan, the same locale I'd used in Bonfire. I didn't realize until 1995 that this approach wasn't working and that I was repeating myself. Second, I always recommend to people who ask me for helpful hints on writing that they start with an outline. Naturally, I didn't take my own advice and do an outline until I was years into this project...
Pollard took reams of classified material each weekend to an Israeli-occupied apartment, where agents churned it through a photocopier. After 18 months, he had brought enough paper to make a stack 6 ft. high, 6 ft. wide and 10 ft. deep. While Pollard apparently didn't ask for money up front, once he began spying, the Israelis paid him $2,500 monthly. Then there were the trips to Europe and a $7,000 diamond ring for Anne, whom Pollard divorced...