Word: speaking
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Some of your wide receiver colleagues-guys like Terrell Owens and Chad Ochocinco-have a reputation for being divas or attention-seekers. What is it about the position that causes so much drama? I can only speak for myself. I'm always a pretty quiet guy. But I just think the wide receiver position gets glorified. I know offensive lineman that are just as crazy as any receiver in the NFL, but they don't get the publicity that receivers get. I think those guys happen to be special football players too. Trust me, you won't get much attention...
...There's been some controversy around that. Some Republicans have objected to that. Some of the 9/11 groups have. I just wonder whether you would speak to - kind of enunciate what that day really means now, going forward, in your view. The President: I wasn't aware there was a controversy, so you just reported - I guess there's always a controversy somewhere. I think that last year at 9/11-...
...claim by some critics that Obama wanted panels of scientists empowered to deny health care to the ill and infirm, or as the President put it, "to kill off senior citizens." On this point, there is some discussion that could reasonably take place, if people agreed to speak reasonably...
...University of Wollongong, Ajay Unni came face to face with an ugly edge of Australian society. Newly arrived from his native India, Unni was chatting with a friend at the local train station when a stranger came up to them and snarled, "Why don't you f___ing speak English?" Seven years later, Unni recalls the moment with some bemusement. "The funny thing was that we were actually speaking English, with a few words of Hindi here and there...
...Khmer empire that dominated Southeast Asia for some 600 years until the Siamese sacked the city for good in 1431 - you feel a bit like Shelley's traveler, standing before Ozymandias' half-sunk, shattered visage. All around are lifeless things - retaining walls of blotchy laterite, and sandstone temples that speak little of Angkor's former grandeur and its golden spires. There's no hint of the regal festivals that once took place right here, viewed from this same vantage by mighty kings beneath parasols of red silk. But there is an eyewitness report of life at the gilded Angkor court...