Word: trusted
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...would stop shaving her legs. In his recent Philadelphia speech on race, in which he acknowledged the grievances of blacks and whites, Obama was consciously channeling his mother. "When I was writing that speech," he told nbc News, "her memory loomed over me. Is this something that she would trust?" When it came to race, Obama told me, "I don't think she was entirely comfortable with the more aggressive or militant approaches to African-American politics." (See pictures of the world reacting to Obama...
...supposed to directly represent him. The job of teacher in an inner-city Baltimore school is difficult. In the first year as teacher, you’re just trying to make it through. Teachers come and go all the time, and the students don’t trust you. The biggest challenge is just trying to keep a semblance of order, making connections, building friendships. Some of the poorer students don’t have even basic needs met, such as getting the necessary textbooks or getting proper nutrition. You have to take those things into account.THC: And was there...
...programs will require a struggle to dismantle. Farming has a particularly strong valence in our national consciousness. The image of the courageous yeoman farmer, rising at dawn to milk the cows seems as American as apple pie or corn-based ethanol. As Ralph Grossi, president of the American Farmland Trust, told the Wall Street Journal, farmers are perceived as “hard working, salt of the earth, a core part of our culture.” Perhaps this sentiment, combined with the political clout of farming states like Iowa and the $80 million big agriculture poured into lobbying last...
...record and are subject to public records disclosure, according to the state’s Public Records Law. In its statement, the school committee expressed “disappointment” over the administration’s actions and believes it “may have violated the public trust.”The committee has also “taken steps to ensure that the administration no longer has access to the school committee’s group e-mail.”Walser said that it is “truly false” that communications with...
...said Putin, praising his American counterpart?s integrity and reliability. For his part, Bush did not spare words to heap up praise on the man whose soul he claimed to have glimpsed back in 2001, when they first met in the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana, and decided he could trust...