Word: tells
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...here to help. In making this important decision, you can find a lot of guidance by looking at who you are, what you want, and most obviously, what you accomplished in high school. So, whip out your resumes, prefrosh—the night is young! You tell us what you did to get into Harvard, and we’ll tell you what events to hit up tonight...
Wray lets Will tell his own story half the time, and gives the other half to Detective Ali Lateef, who’s leading the subway-centric manhunt. The novel is ripe with divergent identities: Will and his alter ego, “Lowboy”; his mother Yda and Lowboy’s name for her, “Violet;” Lateef and his given name, “Rufus White.” The alternating perspectives of the narrative themselves constitute a sort of double identity, mirroring the dynamic between the world of institutions above ground...
...that they actually glow under a blacklight. All this is very disconcerting. On your ride over on the plane, you sat between some kid with a BlackBerry who wanted to compare the opportunities for junior politicians at Harvard and Brown and a girl wearing six scarves who wanted to tell you about all the high-school theater shows she had revitalized with her post-Foucaultian directing style. You are just a normal person. It comes out in the course of conversation that you don’t even play the violin...
Musser, Phil • unwitting admission by that the guilt of - and deservingness of torture of - Guantanamo prisoners was obvious ("You know, I could tell, I could tell ...") by the mere casting of the naked eyes of upon...
...Each time one arrives home Jabouri sits down with him for a chat. "We give a little lecture to anyone from our area who's been released from Camp Bucca and come back," says Jabouri, whose tribal fighters have been working with American troops against insurgents since 2007. "We tell them that if they behave well, there will be no problems. If not, they will be right back in prison...