Word: asks
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...sleek German vehicle, not a tank but a Mercedes-Benz; he could take Cannes' Best Actor prize on Sunday night. The movie is pretty scrupulously played in the languages its characters would speak - except for one odd moment early on, when Landa tells the French farmer, "I ask your permission to speak English for the rest of the conversation." (He and the film have a reason for this...
...race. "The problem these boards have had is that the people who know the most are the insiders," says top financial-services recruiter Gary Goldstein. "It is prudent to have at least a few outsiders on the board who have an unbiased perspective and know the right questions to ask...
...that to the fullest advantage.” Faust urged the Faculty not to view the changes resulting from the financial crisis as mere losses, but as opportunities for the University to refine its priorities and reexamine its identity. “I think it forces us to ask who we are and who we intend to be,” Faust said. “We have to make very hard choices, we have to be willing to give some things up, and all of us are going to be finding ourselves doing things differently.” Despite...
...resolve, Galvin wrote. Other delays likely resulted from the difference in cell phone service providers among Message Me users, he added. But another bug affected those who did eventually find the texts on their phones. The second sentence of the messages were truncated to read “Police ask people to remain indoors and avoi—” cutting off the two final words, “the area.” The error resulted from the Message Me system’s inability to send texts longer than 160 characters, including the message heading, according...
...Tamil minority. With the end of the LTTE, the Tamil National Alliance may play a greater role in negotiations for Tamil rights. There is still some hope of a political settlement that will grant Tamils some protection and greater autonomy; the Sri Lankan government is expected to ask for millions in international aid to rebuild the north. But the dream of eelam may be dead. (Read "Escape from Hell: Refugees Flee Sri Lankan War Zone...