Word: guess
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Jordan does not see his support for Omega Psi Phi as detracting from his goal to be a role model for youngsters of all races. "I try to be seen as Michael Jordan the person, not as black or white," he says. "I guess I am a pioneer, and at some time I may come up against a racial barrier, but at least I have cleared...
...guess he was partly right and partly wrong. I was right in that the issue has, during this year, attained enormous importance and new recognition. But he was right, since it didn't do me any good politically. There are still barriers to political action. Let me discuss five of them...
Numerologists might be intrigued to learn that this novel completes a trilogy, that this trilogy is the third that Canadian author Robertson Davies has written, and that a painted triptych figures prominently and mysteriously in the narrative. What this plethora of threes may signify is anyone's guess, but those more interested in words than in integers will face a calculated problem. Specifically, is it possible to understand and enjoy The Lyre of Orpheus without having read The Rebel Angels (1981) and What's Bred in the Bone (1985), the books that lead...
...Even after eight years I have to start every answer by correcting their questions," said Reagan, watching the commentary after the conference. "I was going to threaten to come back next week," he chuckled, then added, "I guess I'd better get back upstairs with my roommate." Aide Ken Duberstein suggested he tell Nancy he might have a return engagement. Said the President: "I'd have to room with one of you tonight if I did that." Endit -- 30 -- put it on the spike...
Asimov is all too frequently barraged by those who confuse Shirley MacLaine's utterances with thought. The interrogations have to do with UFOs, alien visitors, astrological predictions and the healing power of crystals. "Cab drivers mostly," he says, "and passersby. I guess these are what causes them to recognize me." The term these refers to a pair of voluminous sideburns, and they make it impossible to mistake the wearer for anyone else, except possibly Martin Van Buren, the eighth President of the U.S. New Age inquisitors remain one of the few puzzles Asimov is unable to crack: "I have never...