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...aren’t going to get out…If we’re talking about an issue, we have to listen to what [the other person] is saying. ‘You’ve given me something to think about’—that phrase always really warms my heart,” he said, smiling...
Even my biased accuser acknowledged that there was not a single phrase, sentence or idea in my book that came from someone else without being quoted and cited. His gripe was that in a handful of instances I cited the quotations to their original sources rather than to the secondary source he falsely claims I found them all in. That is why Professor James Freedman, the former President of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of Dartmouth and the University of Iowa, came to the following conclusion...
According to Halley, the phrase “sexual orientation” usually refers to the gender of one’s sexual partner. “Many transgenders or transexuals stick with their ‘original’ sexual orientation,” she wrote in an e-mail. “And many ‘time’ things in such a way that their most vulnerable transition period is also a time of their not having sexual relations with anyone...
...life" has become almost a mantra for Latham (and a phrase journalists use among themselves to mock his earnestness) as he builds a narrative of constancy and purpose. Sure, he's not the first politician to do this - to show that he's one of the people - but he's doing it in a peculiarly Australian way, using the vernacular and mundane experiences to connect. Last February, when he began a series of community forums ("democracy in the raw," he calls it) at the Central Coast Leagues Club in Gosford, N.S.W., Latham immediately caught the temper of the crowd...
...being scattered all over the country, this clutch of school chums has managed to keep in touch for more than six decades, since starting at New York City's public school (P.S.) 80. The friends' story, which was recently turned into a documentary, reveals a gentler era, when the phrase "friends forever" had meaning...