Word: blanke
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...March, Americans gave their President a 75% approval rating, according to a Time/cnn poll, and 70% said the U.S. should use military force to remove Saddam Hussein. Not only does Bush command the huge forces of the globe's only super-power, but Americans have given him a blank check to use them. Blair has now committed some 6,000 troops to Afghanistan, an important political marker before the summit. He nevertheless remains a junior partner whose public is a drag anchor...
...contrast with those expansive views, Levitt also frequently collapses her depth of focus. Brick walls—blank or covered in graffiti—provide frequent backdrops, and for this reason her pictures could truly be anywhere, but they carry a special connotation because the audience knows it is New York. It begs the question: Were these pictures not taken in New York, would they carry the same emotive force? Given the set of ready associations that the city has in our cultural memory, likely not. However, this is Gotham unlike many have ever witnessed. Levitt?...
...speech. While many students are exceptionally gifted at expressing themselves in writing and have the ability to think of convincing arguments, they stumble when it comes to verbalizing them. Understandably, it can be daunting to speak out in section. After embarking with what seems to be a good point, blank incomprehension or condescension on the faces of classmates can lead to rambling diversions and oral absurdities...
...Cambodia that Gargan's journalistic talents shine. Uncovering the blank spots in the memory of a decimated culture where mothers no longer know how to properly feed their babies, he listens to tales of prisoners who subsisted on five grains of rice a day in Pol Pot's work camps and insightfully wonders how much of the story is being left out?what horrible deeds were committed to avoid being dragged away and bludgeoned to death. Here, unlike in Vietnam, he engages the central question of how survivors continue their lives with such a grisly past literally seeping...
Another anxious dreamer, Marisa W. Green ’04, envisioned academic trauma without flames. Although her life was not at stake, her grade was. “I dreamed that I was taking my Music 97 midterm this Wednesday and my exam packet was filled with nothing but blank pages,” she remembers, “so I had no idea what the questions were. Needless to say, I was unable to write anything for said exam...