Word: tells
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...cheerful about it. "I love the time I have to think on the 6,000-mile burro ride to my 9 a.m. class," they would say. They are the same people who, after reading this article, will march right up to me at dinner in the dining hall and tell me that there's no way the Quad could be any better. These are the people that I will then hit over the head with my dining hall tray...
...unsafe party and fraternity environments rather than underage alcohol abuse suggests that the writers spend more time writing editorials than they do researching facts." It seems to me that she is the one who is spending too much time writing and not enough time researching. Surely you cannot tell me that Scott Krueger's fatal error was being underage. Simply put, he drank too much. And whether he was 15 or 50, he would have had to deal with the same consequences. MICHAEL S. ROIFF...
...Even for a grammar-loving person like myself, it's a bad sign when you have to parse his sentences to get through his syntactical tap-dance to the truth. His answer to Lehrer's simple question about the scandal was disturbingly complex: "I did not ask anyone to tell anything other than the truth. There is no improper relationship." Note the indefinite pronouns, "anyone" and "anything". He's taken the question out of the personal realm and into the theoretical, where the President would never ask someone to lie. I won't even examine the usage of the present...
...tell you where you can stuff...
...that will ever happen again." In the New York Post, Morris tried to explain away his gaffe by saying the show's host had posed a hypothetical question about Hillary's being gay; the program transcript shows Morris brought up the topic himself. People who have spoken to Morris tell TIME that he's distraught, even wretched, about his amazing performance...