Word: spokenness
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Scowcroft is that, but he's not actually "advising" Obama. The President-elect has only spoken to him twice, briefly, in the last year and not on substance. Obama's other attempts at outreach, though apparently sincere, seem equally symbolic, at least for now. Obama has had short conversations with Reagan's Secretary of State George Shultz and former deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, and both men describe their conversations positively. But an Obama transition aide, when pressed about these contacts, admits that it is "not fair to put them in the category of advisers." Rick Warren and Obama...
...most accounts, Quinn hasn't even spoken to Blagojevich - with whom he was twice elected, in 2002 and 2006 - in more than a year. At one point, as Quinn was pressing the governor over taxes and electricity rates, Blagojevich said Quinn was no longer a part of his administration. "Quinn is known as a gadfly," Blagojevich told a radio station last year. "That's one of his charming qualities...
...after and those that we probably shouldn't be able to get, like Elvis Costello, that we do. More than anything, they serve the purpose of a character in a musical, where this character's voice makes the most sense. I mean, what if Darth Vader had spoken in that regular dude's voice? You needed James Earl Jones. Certain lines need to be conveyed in certain ways...
...There's a line from The Shawshank Redemption that is apropos. It's spoken by Tim Robbins' character: "Get busy living or get busy dying." We've lost it all, but we're choosing to get on with living...
...Schwartz said that some action can be taken only with the administration’s support. He noted that he had spoken to administrators about Flores’ proposal to grade students’ first semesters on campus on a pass/no record basis, and that they said the idea is “infeasible...