Word: admittedly
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...there's a catch: the Chinese government may still try to build the electronic equivalent of the Great Wall around its country. As enthusiastic as they may be about the efficiencies of the Net, government officials admit they are still curious about the notion that the Net could somehow be "boxed." In that imagined future, Chinese citizens would have easy access to domestic websites, but sites outside the mainland--cnn.com for instance--might be blocked. China would become one big, self-contained Internet--what techies like to call an intranet--sealed off from the rest of the world. Access...
...York Times published a glossary of grunge slang from Seattle, a journal called the Baffler claimed that a prankster had hoodwinked the Times with the notion that grungesters used "swingin' on the flippity-flop" to mean hanging around, and said "harsh realm" rather than "bummer." I was forced to admit publicly that if I hadn't happened to read the Baffler just before a trip to Seattle, which was sure to include some browsing at the mother church of Eddie Bauer, I might well have replied to a floor walker who asked if I needed any help, "Thanks...
...Admit it, you never watch MTV. You've got the Nashville Network written all over...
Richard Nixon should have received a higher standing than No. 15 in the historians' ranking of U.S. Presidents. While Nixon is the "most difficult President to assess," many will admit that he was one of the greatest foreign policy Presidents of this century. Also, I disagree that John F. Kennedy (No. 8) might have been "first tier" had he lived. The Vietnam War would have hurt him in the end, and he would probably have lost a bid for a second term. JASON HINDLE Keene...
Hard-core gamers like Niedzwiecki admit that their numbers are few and far between at Harvard. But in their voices one detects an undercurrent of contentment, even righteousness, about the gaming lifestyle. It is, in fact, their chosen path...