Word: asks
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...time away from the family in Chicago: "Her displeasure - or simply loneliness - was not something he took lightly, but it didn't keep him from doing what he wanted to do...Barack would sometimes get stuck in Springfield during extended sessions, and when his staff would call Michelle to ask her to fill in for him at an event, she would do it if it worked into her schedule, but felt free to decline if it didn...
...interviews you have said that you are trying to resist classification. What do you think about that?Jonathan Carroll: Critics and people who run bookstores like to classify things because it makes their jobs easier: Put this in the mainstream section. This is a fantasy novel, etc. Whenever people ask what “kind” of books I write I usually smile and say “mixed salads.” In that I mean a good mixed salad has tomatoes, sliced onion, capers, lettuce...lots of different things, covered with a tasty dressing. In my work...
...Louis, is one of a handful of U.S. counties that always vote for the winning candidate in presidential elections. This perfect record goes back more than a half-century. And it explains why I recently set out for that oracle county, traveling across the middle of bellwether Missouri to ask how the ultimate swing voters - the white working class - are looking at this year's decision...
...wound up spending a long time in the salon, though I didn't have to ask many questions. Just about everyone seemed to have a strong opinion. It was the sort of place where everyone knows one another in a small-town way, and they all talk and laugh and say outrageous things. Renee Martin, the salon's owner, told me she and her husband disagree so strongly, they can't even talk about the election anymore. And that was surprising because at first she was afraid of Obama. "What had me scared," she explained, "was the whole thing about...
...Branchflower report still makes for good reading, if only because it convincingly answers a question nobody had even thought to ask: Is the Palin administration shockingly amateurish? Yes, it is. Disturbingly...