Word: aptness
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Navin's strength in the face of his illness was amazing. It couldn't have been easy to study so diligently--he graduated summa cum laude in Social Studies and was named a Rhodes Scholar-while fighting a terminal illness. As a friend wrote me in a succinct yet apt tribute on Wednesday, "Navin worked hard...
...Muhammad's decision to allow a woman to leave her marriage if she returned a garden she had been given by her husband. Moreover, men will retain the right to appeal a divorce indefinitely. Yet while such compromises may be undesirable from an purely egalitarian standpoint, it would be apt for those with a vested interest in change to realize that religious interpretation may currently be the most successful vehicle for reform in Islamic nations. Incremental reforms, over time, give way to large scale changes, and while accepting justice through installments is never desirable, it may be the most expedient...
Three weeks ago, when McCain began comparing himself to a Star Wars hero--"I'm Luke Skywalker trying to get out of the Death Star"--the analogy seemed overblown. But by primary day in South Carolina, it seemed more than apt...
...music in most spoken word poetry recordings is little more than background texture, the sole thing separating the album from the books-on-tape racks. Few poets know how to truly interact with the music the way Sekou Sundiata does. Sundiata calls his work "Rythym and News," an apt term for the thick, soul-stirring verse he lays down over hip-hop, tribal and bebop grooves. His words are as deeply rooted in African-American culture as the beats that back them; the verse explores Sundiata's own experiences as a native son of Harlem, as well as the stories...
...shouldn't be patting our backs because we narrowly averted disaster; we should be screaming at ourselves for getting so close in the first place. Developed countries such as Italy spent far less than the U.S., and they did just fine. An Italian newspaper printed the apt headline, "The Bug Was a Dud; the Great Fear is Over; But Some Accuse: It Was a Bluff to Make Money...