Word: tells
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Kinsley's advice to tell people "what they don't want to hear" is a recipe for disaster for any U.S. presidential candidate seeking to win votes in our rapid-fire, media-spun era of talking-points demagoguery. Adlai Stevenson, the last presidential candidate who sincerely tried to talk sense to the American people, suffered two defeats following Kinsley's advice, and the 1950s' American electorate was smarter than those immersed in today's lowest-common-denominator, Joe the Plumber world of sham politics. Our only hope is that the better candidate, Obama, can cajole people into assuring his victory...
...don’t think there’s any one that stands out more than the other. I do remember an event that was deeply moving to me. That was when Nelson Mandela got an honorary degree. That was really quite extraordinary.14. FM: Tell me one thing about HUDS that would surprise a Harvard student. TAM: What’s one thing... I don’t know. There are a lot of misconceptions about HUDS. People make a lot of assumptions, and they’re really all over the place, from our purchasing, from who makes decisions...
...what the fat cats at the tray corporations won’t tell Joe Harvard is that it takes as much water to wash one tray as it does to wash five. FACT: That is impossible. FACT: The tray lobby was responsible for the sinking of the Spanish Armada, the Dreyfus Affair and stagflation...
...suppose I can try to tell a lot of jokes at 8:30 in the morning when I teach biostatistics in lecture,” Testa said, chuckling. “Now I don’t have...
...Obama’s rise has surprised many Washington insiders, but days before announcing that he would run for president, he had already called Law School professors to tell them that he had his sights set on the White House...