Word: apted
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...sense, it's apt that his last film be shown on TV, the medium in which he started his career. Having grown up in the Isle of Wight, he graduated from the University of Hull in North Yorkshire, England, and started writing plays that won him a few awards, before going on to become a TV script editor and writer. After his feature debut, the 1990 comedy Truly, Madly, Deeply, starring Alan Rickman and Juliet Stevenson, there was the low-key comedy Mr. Wonderful with Matt Dillon and Mary-Louise Parker. Then came The English Patient, which won nine Oscars...
...what happens in his home state on April 22 or use his endorsement to try to help one candidate or the other win in western Pennsylvania. "It's a really tough decision and I think a lot of freshman, who are so new to Washington, are more apt to take their time in deciding in order to make the best possible choice," Altmire said...
...their job. Fitzsimmons says that the yield is about the same as Harvard’s overall yield, which in recent years has been just shy of 80 percent. This figure is notable since likely letter recipients are seen as particularly appealing candidates, who are even more apt than other applicants to be weighing Harvard’s offer against others.In the battle for top applicants, colleges will have to wait until students decide where they are going before they can assess the effect of changes in recruiting tactics such as likely letters.Link, for one, says that she still hasn?...
...Spitzer's rather poetic sentence seemed apt on March 12, as he resigned as governor of New York in a brief press conference, the culmination of a 48-hour melodrama sparked by revelations that he had been a client of a prostitution ring. Thus ended a public career that had once seemed promising enough that Spitzer was discussed as a potential 2012 Democratic presidential nominee. Spitzer apologized for his "private failings," but he said nothing to explain why he would have thrown it all away, why he risked so much. He had built a reputation as an ethical crusader...
...times choppy and repetitive, Reconciliation reads more like a draft than a finished work - testament perhaps to an editing process curtailed by the death of its author on Dec. 27. But as such, it is a strangely apt memorial to an incomplete life. Jagged and harrowing references to the Oct. 19 bombing of her homecoming rally in Karachi, at which some 150 died, are inserted almost randomly into otherwise fluid prose that appears to have been written long before. The ubiquitous references to terrorism, however, underscore an important point. As a Muslim, a political leader and later a victim, Bhutto...