Word: almosts
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Some of the statements Albert Hsia made in the article "More Security, Not Vigilance" (Dec. 13) are almost laughable if you look at them closely. As an undergraduate and a Harvard student security guard, I agree that Harvard's security system leaves much to be desired. However, students do indeed bear some of the responsibility for security...
...first half, the offense dominated the field. Junior Anne Van Dykum, back full-time after breaking her right thumb almost three weeks ago against Holy Cross, scored the first goal on assists from seniors Char Joslin and Lisa Cutone...
...animals' territory than these creatures, guided by untutored instinct rather than bitter experience, can possibly be. We fear for the older bear's life as he does not; we imagine the degradations of captivity as the cub cannot. But these emotions are not imposed by the movie. There is almost no dialogue, no voice-over narration to cue audience response, and composer Philippe Sarde's lovely score is similarly discreet. This very pure picture entrusts all its meaning to images, and then trusts the audience to read them correctly...
Analysts were united at least in this: Krenz is no Mikhail Gorbachev. True, Gorbachev was no Gorbachev when he ascended to power almost five years ago. But while Gorbachev was aligned early on with reformist factions within the Communist Party, Krenz is indelibly marked as Honecker's creation. The son of a tailor, Krenz joined the Young Pioneers in his early youth and became a full-fledged Communist Party member by 18. He spent three years at the party academy in Moscow, then returned home to rise quickly through the party ranks. He has been a member of the party...
...shuddering pandemonium abruptly ended in an uncanny stillness "almost as awesome as the dreadful sound of the quake," William Bronson relates in The Earth Shook, the Sky Burned. Dazed men still in nightclothes stumbled out of dwellings along with women holding babies. The air was powdery. Many streets had gaping fissures. Few residents could get any idea of the extent of what had happened. People milled about, as an observer put it, "like speechless idiots." Beyond view, the injured and trapped began to cry out, and gradually the able-bodied undertook rescues...