Word: accountably
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...tough enough to rule a land long defined by tribal rivalries and blood feuds. "Karzai?" says a waiter at a kebab restaurant in Kabul. "He's too nice. He should be a schoolteacher." Educated in India, the President, 46, says he was influenced by Mohandas Gandhi, which may account for his conciliatory style. He seems more at ease asking questions than he does issuing orders. "No one is close to having Karzai's control and popularity," says Khalilzad. "He has moral authority, and he's not seen as ethnically prejudiced." But that's different from being fully in charge...
...Harvard recipients account for more than one-fourth of this year’s 31 recipients, taking the greatest share of awards in the four-year history of the Gates Cambridge Scholarship...
...Oscar for Best Documentary a few years ago. But in the vein of his last work, Touching the Void is not a clear-cut documentary; the events it examines are real, but MacDonald uses re-enactments of the story’s events to supplement a narrated account from the disaster’s survivors. The nut of their crisis: halfway through a climb, one of the two team members falls and breaks several leg bones. The other climber decides to lower his injured partner to safety, 300 feet of rope at a time, until he accidentally lowers him over...
...long after we’ve met them. Maybe eons ago, natural selection favored the ability to make perfunctory and permanent character judgments. But more likely our impressions stick because they just make life easier. They act like cognitive shortcuts—interpretive frames that we can use to account for all of someone’s subsequent actions...
Although the MyDoom and SkyNet Internet viruses have been spreading through University e-mail accounts like wildfire for weeks, the new virus, Bagle.J, sends what appear to be legitimate notes from system administrators at a Harvard.edu account...