Word: harped
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Most people think their children are angels, at least some of the time. But Elizabeth Smart fits the storybook image better than many. She's a good student and athlete. Tall and willowy, she had played harp at her grandfather's funeral two days before she disappeared. She favors pale blue. Her cousin has heard her say idiot once. On the surface, there was no reason she should have been singled out by anyone...
...Look at the PR efforts of the rival "brand" - al Qaeda. Bin Laden's propaganda screeds are almost always built around the plight of ordinary Palestinians and Iraqis, for whose suffering most of the Muslim world holds the U.S. at least partly responsible. Bin Laden also loves to harp on U.S. support for corrupt and authoritarian regimes in the Arab world. It's a cynical ad campaign, of course. Bin Laden has done nothing to help either the Palestinians or the Iraqis, and he's nothing if not another high-born authoritarian himself. But think of it as negative advertising...
Some will ask why its useful to harp on two paragraphs that seem largely inconsistent with more than 200 pages of writing. Why pick apart some 20 lines of kitsch when there is more substantive analysis elsewhere? As children of the PC, love-people-for-what’s-on-the-inside era, how can we commit the egregious act of actually judging a book by its cover...
...change the harp to hammock,” he declares. “We got it about two months ago.” He pauses. “It had to be assembled, though...
...also recalls the most interesting package he ever received: a full-sized harp in a wooden crate for a student in the orchestra...