Word: ear
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...days haranguing shady contractors, sending requests to government ministries for assistance, dragging community leaders to meetings, finding medicine for checking on home deeds from people who have recently moved in, learning the minutiae of Iraq's complicated ration card system, setting up neighborhood councils, and sometimes just lending an ear...
...your story on Kevin Rudd: he's a goose who lives in "Brissie," calls children kids and youngsters littlies. He eats his own ear wax, and now he is on your cover. Let's hope that as Australian Prime Minister he will not be the nerd he has proven to be so far, and that we won't cringe every time he appears in public the way we did with his Labor predecessor, Paul Keating. Martin Bellm, Rowville, Victoria...
...Brattle St.) 13) Winter Mug, $8.95; Starbucks Gift Card, $5: Pair these two up for a warm and delicious holiday gift. Or they can put the gift card toward some crappy album from the display on the counter. (Starbucks, 655 Mass. Ave.) 14) Harvard Winter Gear (winter hat, ear warmer, gloves), $9.98 to $14.98: Ideal for cheesy family Christmas card photos. (The Harvard Shop, 52 JFK St.) 15) $15 gift certificate to Felipe’s: Who wouldn’t love it? Racists, that’s who. (Felipe’s, 83 Mt. Auburn...
...think anything worthwhile is created without egotism pushing the effort along and it is good to see it functioning in such extreme circumstances. But still, somewhat shame-faced I have to admit that at some point in the film I began to hear a subversive voice whispering in my ear, and what it was saying was, "Could you blink a little faster...
...Fullilove. "But Labor will explain the alliance in a different way" from the Howard government. "They won't so much emphasize loyalty. They'll emphasize Australian ideas, the advocacy of Australian interests. They'll sell that story to Australians, that the value of the alliance is, 'We have the ear of the world's most powerful country, and we're going to try to use that to push our fresh thinking...