Word: mattering
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...sexual advances. That's harder than it may seem. When my elder daughter was 7, I told her that no man was allowed to touch any part of her body except her hands. "Not even Daddy?" she asked. I paused. No strange man, I amended; or woman for that matter. Then I thought of a lecherous relative and told her the rule applied to extended family and friends, too. My daughter looked at me quizzically, picked up her ball, and ran away. "If anyone pulls down your underwear," I yelled after her, "I want you to scream loudly...
...overlooking the English Channel. But Khodadadi has his heart set 34 km across the water in England, where, he says, his brother works in a Birmingham coffee shop and has vowed to find him a job. That his entry and his job will almost certainly be illegal doesn't matter much to him. Lean and athletic, the 23-year-old says he has spent six weeks looking for a truck with a shipping container he can pry open and hide in during the ferry crossing to Dover. Though police dogs sniff vehicles and drivers seem vigilant in locking the containers...
...want a friend with such mixed Twitters, no matter how jazzed he is about black children...
...half-good ear to hear a colleague is like spotting an elderly mammoth alive in the natural-history museum. As long as he's not extinct, he's formidable. Dingell comes from a time when Congress did big things, like Medicare and the Voting Rights Act, as a matter of course. Key Congressmen were known as "bulls," and they didn't look to the White House for permission slips or marching orders. Dingell's first oath of office, in 1956, was administered by Sam Rayburn, whose power is memorialized in the congressional office building bearing his name...
...break from the unruly local paparazzi, whose attention has now turned to homegrown stories. First, there's the story of an eight-year-old boy allegedly locked up naked and tied by his own mother. "Two beauties from Hollywood can't match something this heavy," Hoeppner remarks matter-of-factly...