Word: assertively
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...actions may threaten. Abu-Ayyash has Antigone's most finely drawn character in Creon, to be sure, but he does not shrink from the task, maintaining a strong, clean elocution and succeeding at keeping his long monologues from becoming flat or boring. It may be too much to assert that he brings the other actors up to the level of his own performance, but Weidman and Kitzinger in particular are much sharper in their scenes with him; Abu-Ayyash's exchanges with a bumbling but philosophical guard, excellently played by Rob Hughes '01, are also a delight. Anchored by this...
...talk, entitled "Y2Kate--Gender Virus 2000," focused on the speaker's past experiences in the transition from birth as a boy to a self-proclaimed gender change to a female identity, and later to rejection of both "labels" to assert an identity that defies pronouns...
Having proven its national prowess with six consecutive wins against teams as far away as California and North Carolina, the Harvard women's soccer team will attempt to assert local dominance when it hosts upstart Boston University tomorrow at Ohiri Field...
...Gore the environmentalist also got in a few good shots (attacking Texas? grim air quality and somehow getting Bush to assert "we don?t know the whole cause behind" global warming) before he went totally off-track and used a passage from the New Testament to defend his tree-hugger status. Bush came back with his usual line: "This is not a matter for federal jurisdiction...
...Games. Did they ever. The news that C.J. Hunter--a sidelined shot putter who is much better known as Jones' husband--had recently tested positive for steroids, became an overshadowing story. Hunter, a 320-pounder who usually avoids the media like a diet, summoned the press to assert, tears flowing, that he would never do anything to hurt his wife. But if he took nandrolone intentionally, he sure wasn't thinking about what might happen to her, to him, to their bank account. And if he took the drug, did his wife know? Could America's golden girl...