Word: mr
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...under way, nobody was predicting any such thing. The Rockefeller who built the place was not John D., the great, striding patriarch, but John Jr., his self-minimizing son. Ultra-prudent, teetotaling and possessing what Okrent calls a "clenched psyche," Junior--almost everybody called him that or, worse, Mr. Junior--nonetheless managed to launch the massive Rockefeller philanthropic operations. And when his advisers talked him into leasing 11 acres in midtown Manhattan, a deal that required paying $3.6 million a year in rent to Columbia University, he unflinchingly initiated the largest construction project in American history to increase the value...
...Battle Plan for the Democrats” in The New York Times in which they proposed demonizing President George W. Bush as their party’s chief political strategy. Begala and Carville advised fellow Democrats, “First, call a radical a radical. Mr. Bush’s agenda is neither compassionate nor conservative; it’s radical and it’s dangerous, and Democrats should...
...understand Mr. Cockburn’s charge of plagiarism against Alan Dershowitz. There is no claim that Dershowitz used the words of others without attribution. When he uses the words of others, he quotes them properly and generally cites them to the original sources (Mark Twain, Palestine Royal Commission, etc.) Cockburn’s complaint is that instead he should have cited them to the secondary source, in which Dershowitz may have come upon them. But as the Chicago Manual of Style emphasizes...
...always take “The Magic of Numbers.” Likewise, someone uninterested in philosophy would not fulfill their Moral Reasoning requirement by taking Philosophy 168: “Kant’s Ethical Theory,” the only departmental course that fulfills the MR requirement. The real difference between departmental and Core courses is not that one teaches, say, a subject and one teaches an approach to a subject. No, both clearly teach a subject, as Phil 168’s duality and strict subject matter clearly indicate. The difference lies in that one, the Core...
...name are read differently across the region, he's known as Kam Shing-mo in Cantonese, Kin Chengwu in Mandarin and Kim Sung Moo in Korean. "I feel weird sometimes," he says as he sips iced coffee in a secluded hotel caf? in Tokyo. "When people call me Mr. Kam, I'm like, who is Mr. Kam? Or they call me Mr. Kim, and I have to remind them that I'm not Korean." He admits his shape-shifting attributes, which are a powerful acting tool, may stem from personal rootlessness. He owns two apartments, one in Tokyo...