Word: boastful
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...with a group of regular girls. I know this game—it’s called let’s-reconstruct-Saturday-night-over-Sunday-brunch, and it’s a lot more fun when I play it with my own friends. That said, the film does boast an undeniably fantastic car chase climax, on par with the “Vanishing Point,” “Gone in 60 Seconds” (the original one), and “Dirty Mary Crazy Larry” sequences it emulates. But ultimately the difference between...
...moved to "industrial-scale" uranium enrichment is the timing. Back in January, Iranian officials informed the International Atomic Energy Agency that it was installing 3,000 centrifuges at its underground enrichment facility at Natanz, and would soon begin feeding uranium gas into them. Ahmadinejad had been expected to boast of this expansion from a 328-centrifuge pilot operation last Feb. 11, as Iran celebrated the 28th anniversary of its revolution...
...Ahmadinejad's latest boast is more likely to be read as a political tactic than a statement of technological capability. "Iran has been creating facts on the ground as part of its negotiating strategy," says Paul Kerr, non-proliferation analyst at the Arms Control Association. "The further along the program, the more of it they will be able to keep in the future - so their thinking goes. Iranian officials have noted that other countries who pursued enrichment in the past got a lot of static from the international community at the early stages, but were later able to keep their...
...though Iran has not yet gotten in its enrichment program as far as it has been proclaiming. Yes, they are making progress, and yes, it is a new stage to be enriching uranium in the underground production-scale facility. But to call it industrial-scale enrichment is a boast...
...Knowles doesn’t compare the Harvard student body to that of peer institutions. Just 42 percent of Princeton undergrads and 37 percent of Yalies concentrate in the social sciences, well below below Harvard’s 54 percent. Both Stanford and Berkeley boast far fewer (25 and 30 respectively...