He simply asks questions which are all the more difficult to answer because the listeners know that they are being posed by an eminently reasonable man.

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He asks big questions.

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Pollock isn't trained in architecture, so the questions he asks his friend tend to be questions you or I might ask if we met him, and because both of them are engaged in trying to create art in disciplines that are mostly about commerce, they find plenty of common ground.

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He will not have all the answers, but he will be doing the country a great service if he asks the right questions.

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He'd first of all be there: sharing the risks, not just taking sides but steadily changing the entire atmosphere by the questions he asks of everybody involved, rich and poor, capitalist and protester and cleric.

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However, my barber told me - now, this is a guy who puts his razor to people's throat every day and asks them questions, and he can legally do that.

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However, the first time he accesses the site, the bank asks him a series of questions concerning his prior addresses, employers, and favorite pets.

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"If you're somebody who comes to chapter meetings and always asks outstanding questions, a recruiter will definitely take notice, " he says.

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When interviewer Manuel Klausner (who has moved up in the world and is now a frequent contributor to this column) asks the future president to elaborate, he goes on to talk about such esoteric questions as whether fire departments should be privately or publicly owned.

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