Word: frankness
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...seized on the death of a "lost boy" - a teen refugee from Juniper Creek - to plaster the hall with mug shots of the teenage Bill, himself a lost boy when his father threw him out of the compound. During the debate, Bill summons the resolve to give a big Frank Capra speech, confessing that to stay alive he committed burglaries and worse: "I did things for cash that haunt me to this day." He insists that society must save the lost boys. "Until we embrace them - our shadow, our stain - we will never be free of our history." He walks...
...into the family because "she's carrying our child" - until she learns that the child was conceived before the marriage. Bill reveals that his political ambitions fold into his domestic dream of make his polygamy public and moving his families into one big house. Bill's parents Lois and Frank drive Ben from Juniper Creek to Mexico, where they buy parrots for resale in the U.S. Lois thinks they've "cut out the middle man": Hollis Greene, the leader of a rival polygamous cult, who lives down there. But Hollis is not so easily ignored. He and his ultra-butch...
...count. Blair won five golds and a bronze. By any kind of accounting, her haul is more valuable than Ohno's two golds, two silvers, and three bronzes. You can't take away anything from career of Ohno, whose hip looks, fast feet, and dashing name (if he was Frank Smith, would have snared that spot on Dancing With the Stars?) have allowed him to become a rare Winter Olympian who enjoys mainstream fame. He has won medals in three consecutive Olympics, trains ten hours a day to keep his frame chiseled, and is the best chess player...
...Republicans have used this rising disgust with government not just to cripple health care reform but also to derail other Obama initiatives. In a memo to clients on how to defeat new regulation of Wall Street, Republican pollster Frank Luntz urged them to attack "lobbyist loopholes" - items that were put into the financial-reform bill, as in the health care bill, largely to attract enough Democratic votes to break the GOP filibuster. Needing 60 votes has made the debate over every bill on Obama's agenda longer and uglier, which is exactly how the Republicans want...
Steve Jobs, Apple co-founder and iconic figure of the digital age, once remarked that he had "always been shameless about stealing great ideas." The same frank revelation by a 17-year-old literary wunderkind who is accused of liberally - and unabashedly - lifting passages from another writer has now sparked a heated media debate in Germany...