Word: tells
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...farcical to hear the expressions of shock by members of Congress. I was a summer intern in the U.S. Senate during college, and I can tell you some sex stories about both Democratic and Republican Congressmen that would make the salacious details of Monica and Bill pale by comparison. The Starr report is a political hatchet job by a partisan bounty hunter who has wasted millions of taxpayer dollars. BYRON B. MATHEWS JR. Coconut Grove...
...great season for assaults on seemingly unbreakable records. We asked top sports-stats mavens to tell us which baseball records are mathematically least likely to be broken...
...Everything's quiet." "Everything's cool." "Don't worry--if we need you, we can page you." One by one, the late-night nurses for each intensive-care unit politely tell Michael Baker to get lost. Baker understands. "Basically," he shrugs, "the staff doesn't know me from Adam's house...
...Mikey! These folks might be able to use your services!" On the second floor, just as another nurse is telling him nothing is going on, a voice rings out from down the hall. It is a divinity-school colleague who also pastors a local church. Some congregants are here with an uncle. Exploratory surgery has just shown that he's riddled with cancer and has perhaps four months to live. When he wakes, they will tell him. Baker asks if he can help. Not just now, the family says gently. Later he will write neatly in the chaplain...
...choreographed. Over the years, the King and the prince have developed a deliberately complementary partnership. Hussein plays the role of the beaming, benevolent father, while Hassan is the disciplinarian, even if it makes him unloved. Hussein will receive a delegation of functionaries, clap them on the back and tell them they've done a fine job. Then he'll phone Hassan, complain about their shortcomings and instruct his brother to sort...