Word: mr
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...impatience with himself, with his failing health, and his impatience with our inability to close the gap between the promise of humanity and the performance of human beings.”Today, his family’s personal staff still pick up the phone to chirp, “Mr. Bingham’s office.”“No, we’re not used to him being gone yet,” says Anne E. Douglas, an administrative assistant to the Bingham family. “We’re not ready to give up saying...
...Bush explained that he had accidentally typed in Mr. Gore's defunct "veepguy48@whitehouse.gov" email address. "Besides," the President continued, "when you hang out with my friends, you tend to become-" "I tend to become what?" Gore interrupted. "That," Bush said. "What you just did. Like in the debates." After loudly sighing, the author of Earth in the Balance accused Bush of "hanging out with yes-men-you're ensconced in this impenetrable inner clique...
...removing snippets from his work as a "grisly" endeavor. Taking ideas and combining them with other ideas in order to create a new and more effective chain of thought - isn't that called editing? If universal electronic access to books mean that readers will now tackle the editing themselves, Mr. Updike, in his century spanning career - comprising, by my casual estimate, perhaps 20,000-bound-between-covers-pages - could have cause for concern...
...they want, what I want, is for what I'm reading to have already undergone the sort of editing that allows reading to be an intimate, thoroughly immersive, deeply pleasurable activity. Who is going to DJ "Freakonomics," the opening chapter of "The Mill on the Floss," and one of Mr. Updike's golf poems into some grisly new work? The only people who will do something like that are the same people who stand most to benefit from bookscanning: writers! Book scanning...
MORALES The nationalization was simply my government obeying a demand made by the Bolivian people in the election. That's democracy, a communal democracy with consensus. I think Mr. Bush wants us to be a colonized democracy: dependent, submissive and subordinate to foreign interests...