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2 days ago · Reported speech is a constant feature of news stories, especially in hard news and current events articles. By reported speech I refer here to phrases, most commonly full sentences, that are reported as either direct speech, that is, written between quotation marks, or as indirect speech, both types as complements of a verbal process such as say, claim, or affirm and traditionally seen as part of the syntactic structure of the clause that contains the reporting verb.
1 day ago · Libertarianism portal. United States portal. v. t. e. Avram Noam Chomsky (/ noʊmˈtʃɒmski / ⓘ nohm CHOM-skee; born December 7, 1928) is an American professor and public intellectual known for his work in linguistics, political activism, and social criticism. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", [ a ] Chomsky is also a major ...
1 day ago · Robert Bernard Altman (/ ˈɔːltmən / AWLT-mən; February 20, 1925 – November 20, 2006) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is considered an enduring figure from the New Hollywood era known directing subversive and satirical films with overlapping dialogue and ensemble casts.
5 days ago · Robert Strange McNamara (/ ˈmæknəmærə /; June 9, 1916 – July 6, 2009) was an American businessman and government official who served as the eighth United States secretary of defense from 1961 to 1968 under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson at the height of the Cold War.
3 days ago · Nominated for two WhatsOnStage Awards 2024, including Best West End Show. Olivier Award Winning musical BACK TO THE FUTURE is currently wowing audiences at London’s Adelphi Theatre. Adapting the iconic story BACK TO THE FUTURE for the stage are the movie’s creators Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis.
4 days ago · Bob Menendez (born January 1, 1954, New York, New York, U.S.) is an American politician who was appointed as a Democrat to the U.S. Senate from New Jersey in 2006 and was elected to that body later that year. He previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives (1993–2006).
4 days ago · Columbus, city, Franklin, Fairfield, and Delaware counties, capital (1816) of Ohio, U.S., and seat (1824) of Franklin county. It is situated in the central part of the state on the relatively flat Ohio till plain, at the junction of the Scioto and Olentangy rivers.
