When we’re speaking, we generate 150 words a minute.
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Doug Lewandowski, For the News Tribune | 5:00 am, Dec. 23, 2020 ×
Doug Lewandowski
As a person who writes, I can correct screwups before I send them to my editor. If I go over a piece of writing 15 to 20 times, chances are, it will come out OK.
There is one area of communication, however, where I can’t count on being able to improve my butchering of the English language that would be in speaking it. I am given to verbal fumbling all the time, and inevitably, with the presence of my in-house grammar Nazi, I will hear about it. The worst is he/him, she/her, and lie/lay. Get the picture? The words fly out in an inappropriate way before I can redirect them. At times, I cringe after completing a sentence, knowing it ain’t right er, isn’t correct.
December 23, 2020 at 12:25 PM
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The past year has been, for better or worse, a big year in legal news. So it should come as no surprise to see big names dominating our list of finalists for 2020 Lawyer of the Year. Thanks to everyone who responded to our request for nominations for 2020 Lawyer of the Year. We narrowed the many excellent nominees to a slate of
ELEVEN (yes, that’s how crazy this year was) fascinating lawyers distinguished, despicable, or debatable, depending on your point of view.
Here are the nominees, in alphabetical order, with a brief blurb about each:
Stacey Abrams: After losing her bid for Georgia governor in 2018 following a purge of voter rolls, the Yale Law graduate and former Georgia assemblywoman founded Fair Fight, an anti-voter suppression group, pledging to register as many disenfranchised voters of color as possible for the 2020 presidential election. Through her efforts, Abrams helped turn her state blue, allowing Joe Biden to become th
âLetâs do itâ: Pelosi, Pressley, other Democratic lawmakers rally support for Trumpâs push for larger COVID-19 stimulus relief checks
By Brittany Bowker Globe Staff,Updated December 23, 2020, 1:47 a.m.
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US Representatives Ayanna Pressley, Ilhan Abdullahi Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez all backed Trump s push on Congress to amend
the latest pandemic relief package.BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images
President Trump called on Congress Tuesday night to deliver more pandemic relief to Americans by increasing the $600 stimulus payment included in the proposed COVID-19 economic stimulus plan to $2,000, prompting widespread support from progressive lawmakers across the country.
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It is true, the polls predicted a victory for Joe Biden in the US presidential election. But when US television networks announced that he had indeed won on Saturday, some quarters of Israel s political right were in shock.
Many right-wing activists on Hebrew-language social media are now busy repeating statements from President Donald Trump and his loyalists about the election having been stolen. And they continue to believe that some kind of miracle will leave Trump in the White House after all.
On Israel s independent national Channel 13, newscaster Avri Gilad, who identifies with the radical right, rebuked another journalist who referred to Biden as the president-elect .