Word: boasting
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This week the Brooklyn Museum will proudly open what it can boast is the most comprehensive exhibition ever of Nubia's ancient civilization, spanning 47 centuries and comprising 250 objects borrowed from some 25 institutions, including some cajoled from museums in East Germany and Poland by Bernard V. Bothmer, curator of the museum's superb Egyptian collection and organizer of the exhibition...
Nevertheless, everyone returns from last season's squad, a nucleus which few other squads can boast. As of now sophmores occupy the top three spots, as Martha Roberts, Meg Meyer, and Libby Pierpont all seek to improve on their rookie slates...
...Tigers boast possibly the best offensive line in the Ivies, which should be more than enough for backs Gary Larson, Steve Reynolds, and highly-touted soph Cris Crissy to work with. Quarterback remains a cavity. The defense is huge and adequate, but needs another linebacker and several deep backs...
...Premier Pol Pot and his shadowy colleagues on the politburo of Democratic Kampuchea, as they now call Cambodia. When asked about the figure of 1 million deaths, President Khieu Samphan replied: "It's incredible how concerned you Westerners are about war criminals." Radio Phnom Penh even dared to boast of this atrocity in the name of collectivism: "More than 2,000 years of Cambodian history have virtually ended...
...strategy led Chinese generals to maintain religiously that their hordes of soldiers would triumph over any attacker, no matter how sophisticated his weapons. As a result, Peking all but ignored the advances in weapons technology that other countries have been pressing to achieve. Thus while China today can boast the world's largest standing military force, its 3.95 million soldiers, sailors and airmen (compared with 3.67 million for the U.S.S.R. and 2 million for the U.S.) are equipped with obsolete arms...