Word: speakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lectures: No. Lecture romances are always disastrous mistakes. I speak not from the standpoint of experience, but from the nauseating perspective of having to sit behind two smooching lovebirds while trying to take notes on cell respiration. Spare us all, and don't start a lecture romance...
...writer of Kujo, Carrie, Misery, Christine, Pet Cemetary and many other grisly tales of horror, told Harvard students and faculty how he develops ideas for his stories. King was invited to speak at Harvard on behalf by the Expository Writing Program...
...sense of time that enables them to adapt well to school. "When they come to school, these children enter a world that was not created for them," says Norton, who teaches at the university's School of Social Service Administration. "Imagine yourself in a classroom with adults who speak your language, yet you are unable to interpret what they want you to do, even though you wish to please them." Not understanding the meaning of time, she asserts, is a handicap that may partly account for the poor academic performance of many inner-city children throughout their school careers...
...ensued, at last ending in what Judge Gesell called a "treaty" between the Justice Department and the independent counsel's office. They identified eight general categories of deep secrets, promptly dubbed the "drop-dead list," some elements of which are deemed so exceedingly secret that officials dare not even speak their names. If any documents or testimony relating to a subject on the drop-dead list seemed likely to come up, the trial would halt while all parties tried to settle the question behind closed doors. If Gesell ruled that specific information was essential to North's defense, prosecutors would...
THIS summer, during the presidential campaign, Gov. Michael S. Dukakis belittled the critical voices that were just beginning to speak out, saying, "Those are Jerry Williams' people." While Williams, who hosts a show on WRKOAM, is indeed one of the governor's most vocal critics, Dukakis' comments made it seem as if his foes included only a small lunatic fringe...