Word: speakes
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Still, the latest study is hardly the last word. The complex testing could only confirm the probability of Alzheimer's, not provide a definite diagnosis. In addition, many of the older residents of East Boston do not speak English as a first language, and had less than three years of schooling; this, says Larson, could have brought down their test scores. The exams may also have failed to take into account the normal decline in mental acuity that comes with aging. Asks Dr. Leonard Kurland of the Mayo Clinic: "Where do you draw the line and say this is normal...
...longer did Wilder risk racial polarization by talking about putting prejudice to the test. Now 58, his hair silver, his manner reassuring and his smile infectious, Wilder had grown far too adroit to speak of racial issues in anything other than soft, almost dulcet, tones. Throughout the 1980s, Wilder had consciously shaped his persona to make his blackness and ground-breaking achievements seem almost boring and quietly inevitable. He did not disown his racial identity, tossing off laugh lines like, "How can I not think of myself as a black man? I shave." His style, rather, was to envelop...
From the way they talk, it would seem the law students really do identify with these TV attorneys--a couple of years ago, the Law School Forum even invited cast members to speak at the school. (Unfortunately for the students, they were forced to forego their plans when the actors and actresses wanted first-class tickets to Boston...
Other participants in the conference are Charleston, S.C., Mayor Joseph Riley, who is scheduled to speak today about how to deal with a disaster like Hurricane Hugo, and Boston Mayor Raymond L. Flynn, who will speak tomorrow on drugs and crime...
Takaki, author of Strangers From a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans appeared as the second of three speakers invited this fall by the Harvard Foundation to speak on racial and ethnic relations...