Word: knowing
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...ones I don't understand, which is most of them. No, I love clouds. The different formations and the color gradations--you can look at them endlessly. You know how a fire is so hypnotic? Clouds are much the same...
...Sylvester, who has all the charm and subtlety of a python. She accepted a clumsy girl with Down syndrome onto her immaculate squad and treated her just like all the other members--brutally and contemptuously. When Mr. Schuester challenged her motives, she stared him down. "You don't know the first thing about me," she told him, and as we watched her arrive later at a nursing home, smile so tenderly and sit down to read Little Red Riding Hood to her big sister with Down syndrome, we realized the same was true...
...that to buy gold you had to actually buy gold. In 2003, I went to Manhattan's 47th Street jewelry district to purchase a few hundred dollars in gold coins. When informed that I had to pay cash, I left and never made it back. Dumb move, I know, but indicative of the less-than-investor-friendly ways of the business. One could buy stock in gold-mining companies, but that added a layer of volatility and risk. Since 2004, however, it's been possible - through exchange-traded funds (ETFs) - to effectively own gold without the hassle of actually owning...
...know what roles Muslims should play in our military, but perhaps counseling veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan should not be one of them. Fair or not, I would not have wanted to talk to an Army psychiatrist of Vietnamese descent when I came home from Vietnam...
...wish to go quietly. Employing her house blend of sentimentality, determination, pride and genuine emotion, the queen of all media announced that the 25th season of The Oprah Winfrey Show would be her last. "This show has been my life. And I love it enough to know when it's time to say goodbye," she said on her show, a tear brimming from each eye. "Twenty-five years feels right in my bones." Those might be her business bones she's feeling. As network-TV profits, power and growth drain toward the cable channels, Winfrey is shifting her attention...