Word: speakes
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...Jimenez came to the podium, tears made it difficult for her to speak...
Huan Song arrived in a Chicago suburb two years ago unable to speak much English, but possessed of as much grit as a 14-year-old can muster. The child of divorced middle-class parents in China, she had been sent by her father to live with an aunt and uncle. "I could have had a comfortable life in China, but my father thought I'd have a better future and a more exciting life in the U.S. He made a great sacrifice to let me come here to have a good future...
...outset, the proceedings were confined to two hours, which produced the spectacle of one lawmaker after another finding that he didn't have time to serve up a sound bite, much less an idea. Some complained that they had spent more time naming post offices last week. "I speak for the people who put me here and want to know how I represent their interests here," declared Connecticut Democrat Rosa DeLauro. "The Speaker chose that I should be denied an opportunity to finish my sentence. That's his judgment." Another called it a "charade of justice...
...Calvino preface is so nuanced that it toorequires an introduction, and Martin McLaughlin,who is responsible for the new translation, ablyprovides it. Calvino substantially re-edited thebook in 1954, toning down the Communism, misogynyand violence of his characters. (It is a littlemisleading to speak of the Communism, misogyny andviolence in this book because the tone of thestory is so far removed from the world of thoseadult concerns. Although Pin frequently describeswomen as "disgusting," this is, more than anythingelse, an eight-year old who thinks all girls havecooties.) Calvino declines to mention this re-editin his lengthy introduction, although McLaughlintoo generously...
Richard Pipes, Baird professor of history emeritus and a member of the Davis Center Executive Committee, traveled with Goldman to Washington to speak to Congressional members...