Word: speakes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...family, with its tragic breakup and its missing brother, who may or may not have been an IRA hero, holds a score of riddles, and his mother's, which is mysteriously bound to his father's by more than their marriage, is just as puzzling. No adult will speak to him directly of the families' history, and his knowledge of the troubled family story emerges from half-heard whispers and details gleaned from emotional outbursts. His desire to rip through the fabric of dense half-truths and "cooked up" stories becomes nothing less than a quest, a constant crusade...
...rights, abortion rights and a firm separation of church and state, Goldwater's small-minded ideological progeny would shake their hands, allude to Barry's failing health and his younger, more liberal wife. As he related to a National Review editor, "I haven't been invited to speak at the CPAC (Conservative Political Action Committee) for maybe 15 years? You'd think I was on the other side...
...while longer. And the VX report, which Iraq disputes, certainly seems to bolster the latter case. Asked about the leaked report, State Department spokesman James P. Rubin said the finding "demonstrates how important it is for sanctions to remain in place until Iraq cooperates with UNSCOM." Which is wonk-speak for "We told...
...fair for children to be used as pawns by one parent to punish the other? My ex-wife and Faye Yager, who runs an illegal underground network, don't speak for my children. They don't speak for me. Yet, in concert, they removed my daughters' rights to see me and my rights as a parent to see them. I find that reprehensible. One of your readers characterized Yager as a saint. Mother Teresa was a saint. She never broke the law or lived a life-style separate from that of the people she helped. Yager is no Mother Teresa...
...Jesus is in--but he's running late. At 11 p.m. the man checking names at the door of the Village Vanguard, the New York City jazz club where Miles played, where Monk played, says Jesus hasn't arrived but his plane "is touching down even as we speak." As a result, Jesus' set has been pushed back from 11:30 to 'round midnight. The club is half empty. Only the true believers, only the people whose jazz souls need saving, are going to stick it out that late on a weeknight...