Word: speakes
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...policy flatly says, "You cannot call me a 'Chink.'" I would rather consider the policy a conditional statement: "If you call me a 'Chink,' you have to take responsibility for it." Because people want control of their own utterances, they obviously resent feeling gagged when they want to speak. What I think political correctness should be trying to do is to make people more conscious of what they say. Language, after all, is power; as a medium of communication, it can affirm or degrade the humanity of others. If someone does call me a "Chink," I can put their language...
David Harlan wrote that American historians used to write "morally instructive histories-histories that taught us to speak in the first-person plural." As George Will noted in a column last year, these histories were usually about "the greatness of great men and the nobility of American ideals." He continued, "Those were the sort of writings that moved Martin Luther King Jr. to say that reading history made him feel 'eternally in the red,' that is, with an un-payable debt to those whose lives are imperishable examples of worthy aspirations." The current academic climate, though, of showing the United...
...that his pricey new handset won't work from his office building unless he climbs to the roof.) Bowing to technological reality, Iridium decided that its phones should piggyback on terrestrial cell-phone networks. Then the question became--which ones? An Iridium phone needs different plug-in modules to speak the language of different cellular standards, like NADC in the U.S. and GSM in most of the rest of the world. You get your choice of one when you buy the phone, but additional modules cost $500 each...
...clear that anyone with stature also has the means and the will to nail down a deal. Early last week Utah Senator Orrin Hatch, a friend of Starr's, tried to lay the foundation; he spent 20 minutes on the phone with Clinton, and though he didn't speak to Starr, has a good sense of how the guy ticks. Hatch imagined that the country might be spared a year of unnecessary public hanging if Clinton confessed more publicly and contritely than before, if the House agreed to a censure, and if Starr could somehow be compelled to bless...
...model who lives with the main character in Model Behavior is persistently threatened by a woman with a boxcutter. McInerney says he hasn't shown Hanson the book yet and doesn't know if she read the New Yorker short story it grew out of, because they don't speak that often. "I don't think she'd dislike the book," he says. "But it's not something I can afford to think about when I'm writing...