Word: abound
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...signs abound. Some 75 terrorism suspects, including three juveniles, have been released since mid-November. Meanwhile, the Pentagon announced that the circumstances of each Guantanamo detainee will get an annual review, helping blunt criticism that prisoners are being held in total legal limbo. Officials have also formally charged two captives in preparation for the first military tribunals, suggesting some due process is on the horizon. Several captives in Guantanamo have met with lawyers, as have Yaser Esam Hamdi and Jose Padilla, two U.S. citizens held as enemy combatants in South Carolina. Their cases are set to be heard next week...
...Bordeaux’s Hotel Splendide. A crop of rabid aristocrats have also gathered at the Splendide to escape the madhouse of Paris and badger the wait-staff nonstop for rooms—God forbid they sleep in their cars, with their suitcases and hatboxes! Serendipity and coincidences abound in Bon Voyage—but then everyone’s running around so frantically that it would be impossible for them not to bump into each other at the most opportune, or most inopportune, moments. So do subplots, many of which are left maddeningly unresolved. At times the film verges...
...sounds familiar, that’s probably because Harvard’s anti-grade-inflation crusaders have already proposed similar caps here in Cambridge. Indeed, though the College hasn’t adopted such a policy for undergraduate grades, rumors of formal caps on grades in particular classes already abound...
Serendipity and coincidences abound in Bon Voyage—but then everyone’s running around so frantically that it would be impossible for them not to bump into each other at the most opportune, or most inopportune, moments. So do subplots, many of which are left maddeningly unresolved. At times the film verges on self-parody—Viviane’s hammy, melodramatic antics, for example: the way she throws herself on her bed, her eyes oozing crocodile tears. These keep the tone light for the most part—thank God for small mercies...
Equally unpersuasive points abound in the Survival Guide—for example, that the senior gift makes other students happy here, even if the donor himself is not—and it’s quite clear that the committee exists to bleed seniors of cash: “We want all students to give what they can,” giving being “relative to one’s financial circumstances.” The committee strikes a disturbingly Orwellian chord: “It is important to educate all seniors about proportionate giving...