Word: tells
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...judges tell me flat out that they preferred Harvard students and put the resumes of Stanford students to the side,” said third-year student Alexander S. Del Nido...
...health care system, and the shortage of affordable housing make survival tenuous for so many Americans. But the help we deign to provide comes with strings that tie up poor people’s worth as human beings into their status as dependents. We suddenly gain the authority to tell them how they ought to live and even attempt to sterilize them, as if a human’s worth to a society were solely in her economic productivity. We develop myths about welfare queens, making public assistance recipients into ingrates who ought to be thankful for the little they...
...take this puppy into my arms and love it—this is a bookstore, people, not a pet shop.) A BOLD FRESH PIECE OF HUMANITY: A MEMOIR by Bill O’Reilly I know what you’re thinking: Bill O’Reilly? Let me tell you, we’ve done the whole cute animal thing—twice—so it was about time for the cute kid thing, and Bill is the picture of the 50s commercial kid. He is good-looking, upright and proper, and has a small book open...
...mobster connections and before Edwards’ pregnant mistress—I might have found this funny. We all used to laugh at all the candidates, what characters they were: the 9/11 Guy, the Crazy Libertarian, the One Who Calls Himself a Potted Plant. I used to tell people I was voting for Mike Huckabee because his weight-loss story was an inspiration to us all. Sarah Palin, nearly as cute and every bit as socially conservative, now inspires only disbelief and a vague sense of panic...
...Tris’s best friends, Norah (Kat Dennings), has fallen in love with Nick’s mix CDs, despite never having met their maker. While attending a show by Nick’s band, The Jerk Offs, Norah, feeling lonely, grabs the nearest guy and tells Tris it’s her boyfriend (even though, as we later discover, she already has one). As chance would have it, that guy is Nick, and their relationship springs from there as they attempt to track down the secret show put on that night in New York by Where?...