Word: speaking
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Sometimes the words come first. Sometimes it's better to let actions speak for themselves...
...shame that smoke and puffery have obscured McChrystal's excellent speech. Those who speak of winning or losing in Afghanistan are using a primordial vocabulary. But the essential humanity at the heart of the counterinsurgency strategy - the idea that we succeed if we work at helping people - makes it worth trying. As the man said, this is about humility. In the 21st century, real power may be all about figuring out the right place to dig a well...
Cruise—who prolifically offered "advice, stories, high fives, handshakes, hugs, and even at one point an impromptu dance"—stayed after class to speak with students, including a hoard of people that had gathered by the room as soon as virtual messaging systems went haywire within the classroom when Cruise first appeared...
...university students care about questions of public safety, if they care about development around the campus, if they care about the schools around them, having someone who could speak for that and who is accessible to a student population is just very powerful,” Healy says. “The best of the Yale aldermen have learned how to push the city and the university at the same time...I think that’s what Leland represents. That’s what his campaign is trying to emphasize...
...also helps to have a subject who knows what message she wants to get across. Palin was apparently clear from the start about her book's mission: "It will be nice through an unfiltered forum to get to speak truthfully about who we are and what we stand for and what Alaska is all about," she told the Anchorage Daily News in May, when the deal was first announced. Memoirists with fuzzier goals may find the process slowed by handlers or publishers who bicker over how the book should read, ghostwriters...