Word: listened
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...second in the line of succession to the presidency, after Vice President Dick Cheney. It would also be a test of Pelosi's skills: she has unified the Democrats in opposition, but it would be much more difficult to keep Democratic members in line if they took control. "They listen to no one," says Pelosi. "They don't listen to each other." But so far, the Democrats have listened to their leader, and if she keeps guiding them smartly, Nancy Pelosi could make President Bush's final two years even more vexing than the past...
...listen to the rhetoric of Republican hardliners who seem to find as much value in a sound bite as in a solution, and others who pander to nativists, Pence has gone soft on illegal immigrants. He did it by coming up with a plan that House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner - another key figure in the immigration debate - uncharitably described this week as "amnesty lite...
...School isn't my wheelhouse of strengths. I was an 8th-grade dropout, though I finished with correspondence classes. When I walk through the classrooms at my school, I try to figure out what the classroom's grade is. I listen to the questions and try to answer them. When I get to a point where I can't answer the questions, I'm somewhere around the fourth grade...
...opportunity to see him in 1990. It's almost sacrilegious to say this - at the time, I was like, "Why would I go see Frank Sinatra?" Listen, I can sit here and give you a list of things I wish would never have happened. At the end of day, the obstacles end up becoming your foundation, and that's a treasure. Why would I give that...
...indiscretions and infidelities with rogueish, non-judgmental relish. He could even rejoice in another's meanness-a quality he detested-but only if it was of such spectacular proportions that it made a good story. Raconteur is a word that normally provokes a shiver of dread, but you could listen to Len all night. I never heard him stumble over a name or punchline, even when by rights he should have been stumbling over the furniture. And every tale, bawdy or screamingly funny, showed an understanding of human nature born of self-knowledge and that relentless curiosity. He knew prime...