Word: bitters
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...show, the crowd was asked to emulate the reactions of the audience back in 1925. Transforming their perceptions to those of townsfolk in rural Tennessee, spectators cheered for many of Bryan’s appeals to creationism and hissed at Darrow’s agnostic arguments. The most bitter yelling and name-calling was saved for the final battle of wits and words between heavy-hitters Bryan and Darrow. Darrow surprised the audience by calling Bryan to the witness stand, on the premise of his Bible expertise. Darrow succeeded in lampooning the aging statesman and the audience was brought...
...with mixed success as it challenged Cornell and Columbia this past weekend. The Crimson had its 32-match Ivy League winning streak snapped with a 5-2 loss to Cornell on Friday—its first defeat to the Big Red in program history—but assuaged this bitter defeat the following day with a taste of victory against the Lions, 6-1, earning its first Ivy League win of the season. Nationally-ranked Penn and Princeton come to town to face Harvard at the Murr Center this weekend, as the Crimson hopes to begin another long-lasting...
...When Senni walks down the Champs Elysées, he makes sure to wear a suit and tie. "If I'm in jeans, people think I'm a shoplifter." That impression of being denigrated because he's a second-generation immigrant is a strong one, born of years of bitter experience. His answer was to leave France, first for Sweden and then Britain, where he advises clients on workforce diversity. "In the U.K., diversity is seen as an opportunity. In France it's still seen as a problem," he says. While some corporations are changing, he says, French politics...
...police. Meanwhile, all the political forces vow to abide by the court's ruling, which is expected within days. "That might be one way out of this stalemate," says Viktor Nebozhenko, Ukraine's authoritative political analyst. But even the most Solomonic judgment may not be enough to repair the bitter rift between the two democratically elected branches of Ukraine's fractured government and set the country on a clear and peaceful course...
...different because of the shifts over the years. Prayer at public school graduations, for example, is unconstitutional largely because George H.W. Bush appointee David Souter slid left before the case was decided by a 5-4 vote in 1992. The shifts could also mean we can tone down the bitter battles over court nominees. Justice Rehnquist's 1986 nomination as Chief Justice might have irked Democrats less had they foreseen what the study calculates as his tilt toward moderation by 2003, a year in which he voted to reverse a death sentence. And now that we realize how fluid judicial...