Word: tellings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...here to tell you that if you hope to someday be elected to office, a grassroots approach to campaigning is not just the way that you win elections, but the way that you engage people actively in the politics of your state and country,” said Dukakis, who graduated from the Law School...
That said, Cook asserts that Woods is being subjected to a public double standard: we expect him to tell us and the police more about his private life than he should have to, "certainly more than Joe Schmo would probably have to offer under similar circumstances." That may be so, but if investigators do eventually find evidence that Woods hasn't been as up-front as he should have been - that he might have been under the influence of painkillers after last year's knee surgery, or that he and his Swedish model wife (who told police she smashed...
...slam on his brakes to avoid hitting Woods. "He [Woods] stops, looks up at me and grins, like, 'Ha, ha, sorry,' " Mehta recalls. Whether or not Woods can eventually laugh off his latest traffic mistake depends on whether Florida investigators decide he really doesn't have anything more to tell them...
...easy thing to tell your family members who have shown your child so much love that you're choosing a dude from your freshman dorm as a godparent instead of them. Which is why experts suggest you do it through a humor column in the back of a magazine. But we chose demographics over love. The Wus went to similar colleges, had similar jobs and do similar things with their time. Despite genetics and the 18 years we spent together, our family is less like us than the people we choose to associate with. Which means, sadly, that...
...Taliban ambush in the Kunar Mountains in Afghanistan. Waddell, who was stationed at the unit's base in Virginia Beach, had the agonizing task of sorting through the remains of his dead men - young warriors he had fought beside, mentored and led into battle. He also had to tell their families of the deaths. One wife, he recalls, "just ran away from me, ran down the street. I could understand." By Waddell's reckoning, he attended more than 64 memorial services for his friends and comrades in arms. "Finally," says Waddell, "I raised my hand and said I needed help...