Word: speakes
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...uncompromising modernity of the new writing is also uplifting. Speak to any of these authors, and there is a sense of defiance in choosing to write about the present - an insistence that the stories of how Indians live now are just as worthy of being told as the more self-consciously literary sagas set in some supposedly more romantic past. Indian pop fiction might be banished to second-class status by critics, says Bhagat, "but it's not that to the people who read it." For them, it tells the stories of their own lives, and looks ahead to India...
...face for politics and the wholesome look that gets the middle of the country fired up. The fact that she’s a woman, seen as a draw for disgruntled Hillary supporters and conservative women alike, certainly played a role in her selection, too.Palin even speaks in sound bites. As Peggy Noonan wrote in The Wall Street Journal, “She does not speak seriously but attempts to excite sensation.” As her interviews with Charles Gibson and Katie Couric have shown, when pressed beyond the clever quip she is at a loss for words...
...prominent opposition figure who said he fled to London after receiving death threats from elements within Gayoom's government. "Now we were able to expose the regime for the crimes it had committed." International pressure and defections from his own cadres slowly forced Gayoom to change tack and speak of democratic reform. Ibrahim Hussein Zaki served for ten years as a minister in Gayoom's cabinet, but quit to help found the rebel Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) in November 2003 alongside Nasheed. "I realized that change could never come from within. This was a family regime, not the people...
...cases and initiatives are post-9/11 issues. We immediately started what has been our mantra since then: safe and free. We knew this would be seen as an inevitable trade-off; we'd have to choose [between them], and freedoms would be the sacrificial lamb, so to speak, if we were going to have national security and fight terrorism...
...weaknesses in the argument of liberalism are not addressed or not even known. It seems the University fails to appreciate there are two parties in this country.”Mansfield said he believed his colleagues act differently in his presence and often don’t speak as openly.Wisse, who supports McCain, also sharply criticized what she described as the College’s willingness to accept political imbalance as the status quo.“It is not healthy when one side assumes the other is barbaric and writes it off and never listens...