Word: spokenness
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...wrong to have spoken in a way that has resulted in an unintended signal of discouragement to talented girls and women,” he added in the six-paragraph statement posted on his website. “As a university president, I consider nothing more important than helping to create an environment, at Harvard and beyond, in which every one of us can pursue our intellectual passions and realize our aspirations to the fullest possible extent...
...would pay him to run them by some colleagues—including people like me—to reduce the chance that he would be misunderstood.” While Summers spoke extemporaneously from a set of notes, “I would have advised him to have spoken from a written text,” Gardner said...
...pretended not to hear anything the Palestinian leader said to him. But he chatted amicably with Abbas on a sundeck there. "Their personalities are very similar," says Aaron David Miller, a former U.S. peace negotiator who attended the Wye talks. "They're both very courtly, exceedingly polite and soft-spoken." During Abbas' tenure as Palestinian Prime Minister in 2003, Sharon invited him to Jerusalem and stood with him and George W. Bush at a peace summit in Aqaba, Jordan. Two weeks ago, Sharon privately told a U.S. visitor that he liked Abbas, though he added that he hadn...
...deck there. In 2003, Sharon invited Abbas to Jerusalem and stood alongside him and President George W. Bush at a summit in Aqaba, Jordan. "Their personalities are very similar," says Aaron David Miller, a former U.S. peace negotiator. "They're both very courtly, exceedingly polite and soft-spoken, very measured in their words and tone...
...complications from diabetes; his mother Lucille, a mailroom clerk, died in 1988 of cancer.) It was while caddying that Murray developed his ferocious sense of justice. "As a poor kid carrying a rich guy's bag," says Murray, "you're not supposed to speak unless spoken to--and some people wouldn't even look at you. Then there were others who were extremely gracious, understood where you lived, what your life was like. It was an extraordinary chance to see how the world operates. You learn to spot bad apples real quick...