Word: tells
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...nominee is up against a tough reality out here when it comes to holding the swing voters who elected Bush. McCain is offering a promise of reform to a group of voters who have little faith left in the promises of politicians. "They're all going to tell you what they want you to hear," O'Hare said. And back on the driveway, Tammy Pyle's husband Larry echoed the sentiment. "It's all special interests now," he said. Larry and Tammy were the two Republicans in the group, but even they weren't buying the McCain message. "Whoever gets...
Humorist Roy Blount Jr. is one of America's most prolific authors and a regular panelist on NPR's Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me. His latest book, Alphabet Juice is quasi dictionary/glossary of the English language, peppered with literary references, cultural oddities and hilarious musings on why we choose the words we do. TIME talked to Blount about the most literary band in America, why he advises investing $20,000 in mass transit and what Sarah Palin might mean for the future of politics...
...your major allies has been the advocacy group The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). Tell me about how you first got involved with them. The Alliance has been the instrument of many, many good things. Our daughter was 17, going on 18, when she began showing symptoms of [schizophrenia]. We started stopping by their meetings after work and we quickly found out that, in spite of us having a child who had problems, there were so much more serious ones than ours. We ran into parents with two children who are schizophrenic, and they tried desperately to keep them...
...were oil and gas operators in Dallas, Texas - almost always somebody will come up and say, "Hey, keep with it, Pete, I've got a nephew..." Or, "My uncle Billy had this..." In other words, it is more prevalent than you think. Out of almost any crowd somebody will tell you a story about their family. Those kinds of things are always coming up. Even President Bush spoke to me personally and very eloquently about it. He said, "You don't have to convince me, I'm over that hurdle." Every time we got close [to passing the bill...
...save on air-freshener. The Neorest 550, the brochure states, has a built-in catalytic deodorizer that neutralizes bad ions through a filter, thus reducing stinkage. I can't tell you if this works. Although I tried out most of the features of the Neorest at the launch, there was a line of people waiting to use it after me, so I declined to put this technology to the test. Sorry, my journalistic rigor only goes...