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...starting a substantive conversation...aye, there's the rub. A lot of people fear that some monster called "Political Correctness" is going to devour them if they slip up--if they, for instance, forget to use the adjective "[fill-in-the-blank]-ly-challenged." Only peppering one's speech with the words "pluralism," "diversity," and "sensitivity," it seems, will appease the beast...
...told her softly in English, "Don't move. Help is coming," as she tried to sit up and get out of the car. Another early arrival, a Portuguese cleaning woman, told TIME that "Diana's head and bust were leaning on the window. She was moaning very loudly, saying, 'Aye! Aye! Aye!' Her cries reverberated through the tunnel." The princess tried to speak and was once heard to murmur, "My God." But no direct witness reports her saying anything coherent. The first two policemen on the scene found her semiconscious. One of them tried to keep her awake by "talking...
There, voting with the liberals (such as there are), was my own conservative Senator Bunderson. I had to look twice, but his name was still in the "aye" column...
...hope to raise awareness of the political situation as well as the culture of Burma," said Aye Aye Thant, the group's co-founder and mother of Myint-U. "We are trying to promote democracy...
...would be converted via a complex structure to a nearly 9% stake in Time Warner. The discussions went on over three days, at times breaking into separate groups of inside and independent directors to discuss the minutiae of power and control. At the end, all 15 directors murmured either "aye" or "yes." Then, with little ceremony, they adjourned. Says Luce: "We had nothing further to say to each other...