Word: beg
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...timing isn't bad either. In summer even serious readers beg to have their disbelief suspended, and The Last Don obliges. It is a headlong entertainment, bubbling over with corruption, betrayals, assassinations, Richter-scale romance and, of course, family values. As in its famous predecessor, unquestioned loyalty, unexamined cash flow and expedient ways of dealing with competition are givens, but this story is set in the '80s--and the slick Clericuzios make the Corleones seem as if they just got off the boat. Gone from the new novel are the entry-level rackets and suspiciously profitable olive-oil business. Instead...
...opportunity to start up our own Shakespeare company. But there is more. There are the classes which make falling out of bed not a chore but a welcomed awakening. There are those professors who in their eccentric personalities and plaid bowties invite you to their office hours and beg you to stay and chat...
THERE ARE GOOD REASONS THAT no matter how fiercely his campaign advisers beg him, Dole has so much trouble telling the story of what happened to him and how he survived it. "I don't know if it's generational," he said once of the reluctance to traffic in tragedy for political advantage. Dole, like George Bush and millions of other World War II veterans, left too many friends behind in unmarked graves to consider themselves heroes; they consider themselves lucky...
Knowles also notes that rises in tuition rates cannot continue to outstrip inflation indefinitely. We are grateful that the tuition increase last year was the lowest in decades, but even a five percent increase can be a burden for struggling families. We beg the Faculty to do anything in its power to reduce skyrocketing tuition rates while keeping the budget in balance...
Such eye-catching assertions, which beg the disputable question of whether the Egyptians actually were black, are being promoted by radical Afrocentrists in college classrooms across the U.S. today. The principal goal is to free the teaching of world history from its traditional Euro-focus. A secondary aim is to give minority students pride in the achievements of their ancestors. Up to a point these are unexceptionable goals, concedes Mary Lefkowitz, a professor of humanities at Wellesley. But in a fierce little polemic called Not Out of Africa (BasicBooks; 222 pages; $24), she argues that the Afrocentrists substitute pseudo history...