Word: bottomly
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Besides these anomalies, the play maintained a traditional performance, delighting audiences with a witty Shakespearean romantic comedy performed by a talented cast. Daniel R. Pecci ’09 as Nick Bottom, the weaver, was among the most memorable cast members. Instead of playing Bottom as simply half-man, half-ass, Pecci embraced the character so fully that he acted like a total ass. Consistently eliciting a laugh from the audience, even when he was not speaking, Pecci played Bottom with hilarious complexity—simultaneously vain, insecure, and ridiculous...
...revolt against al-Qaeda that has been gathering force all spring. "This is cause for optimism," Petraeus told me as he watched the recruits being fingerprinted and getting retinal scans for their ID cards. "This is the wave of the future. You've got to work from the bottom up, get the local forces involved." The biometric scans were a major technological advance. The Iraqi police had a reputation for corruption and secret allegiance to the militias, but the allegiances of these men were not going to be secret. If any of those fingerprints turned up on a bomb...
...right thing and comply with our labor laws," says Annette Bernhardt, the study's author and deputy director of the Brennan Center's Justice Program. "But they're starting to come under pressure from unscrupulous employers, and they're getting dragged down in a race to the bottom, which is bad for our entire labor market...
...SHORTER SCHOOL DAY, A BROADER CURRICULUM Parents of potential students opposed expanding the school day from six to eight hours, as the Martin Luther King, Jr. School and the Fletcher Maynard Academy—two schools that have historically performed near the bottom on standardized tests—have done recently...