Word: explaine
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...listening to his father explain sex: "I nodded up and down, my mouth agape. If I appeared awestruck, it was not over this anatomical breakthrough but over my father's choice of props. It occurred to me that never before had any father pressed into service a garden hose to demonstrate the act of sexual intercourse. Not birds and bees. Not mating wolves. Not oak trees and acorns. The two ends of a rubber hose. Only...
...classmates relish their classes and the study-hard, play-hard nature of school, some sound concerned when the subject turns to their job hunt. At the Harvard Business School, a second-year MBA candidate recently posted a blog entry poking fun at the euphemisms business school students use to explain why one internship or another hasn't yielded a full-time offer. What they say is "There wasn't a cultural fit," or "I wouldn't have gone back anyway," blogger CS@HBS writes. But what they mean is "I didn't get an offer...
...opponents. A radio ad, set to the theme from the movie Shaft, contained the lyrics, "When the other guys were cashing government checks, he was in the Navy getting dirty and wet." He boasts a Vietnam Service Medal on his personnel record, although he has consistently refused to explain what he did there...
...could have made up it - it takes several days to play and everyone wears sweaters. I can't confess to knowing what's going on at all. All I can ask from society is that it please stop telling me why I should like sports. People always try to explain that sports are about a sort of mythic combat, or [about] the narratives and the stories. You know what? I've got narratives and stories and I don't need sports...
...Those high stakes explain why the scandal has drawn rapt attention in France, where Strauss-Kahn is considered one of the opposition Socialist Party's sharpest minds - and a leading contender for a 2012 presidential bid. For now, however, the besieged IMF chairman finds himself at the center of a storm stemming from an acknowledged extramarital affair with IMF subordinate Piroska Nagy, who oversaw the organization's African department until she resigned in August of this year...