Word: boundless
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...room, pink granite hotel cost its owners, the government of Abu Dhabi, a reputed $3 billion to build. It fronts its own 1.3-km beach and sprawls over 40 impeccably manicured hectares - an astonishing 10 of which are devoted to its vast indoor spaces. Dwarfed by soaring columns and boundless ceilings, guests can wander among 6,040 sq m of gold leafing, 114 domes adorned with glass mosaics, and 1,002 bespoke Swarovski crystal chandeliers, in an interior that seems part Arabian Nights, part Walt Disney. The hotel's centerpiece is the 42-m-wide Grand Atrium, flanked by five...
...past Spring Performances, the approximately one hundred seats at Rieman have been filled by the time the curtain opens; the mix of choreographic styles in this year’s performance foretells a repeat of this success––especially when coupled with the boundless talent of HBC’s dancers...
...turns corrosive. If you can laugh at anything that smacks of pretension—and, oh, we can—idealism becomes an early casualty. The solution is not to embrace personal ambition, which remains gauche, but instead to transfer it to a cause. We all have, or had, boundless ambition; that is how most of us got to Harvard, after all. Instead of burying it, we ought to be able to apply it elsewhere. Apathy is fairly cool, as evidenced by James Dean—but it is action that lasts...
...teenager to function. Yet the 10 boys and eight girls who pour into the first-period Advanced Placement (AP) Calculus class at McNair Academic High School in Jersey City, N.J., seem remarkably alert. Maybe it's the influence of Victorina Wasmuth, their peppy, diminutive math teacher, who exudes a boundless enthusiasm as she introduces a lesson on Rolle's theorem and the extreme-value theorem, which, she explains, are key underpinnings of calculus. Wasmuth tosses out problems for her students to solve and then roves the room, examining their work. "You're all very smart!" she exclaims...
Blackwill's challenge now is to help the new government gain legitimacy and prepare the country for elections, currently scheduled for early 2005. By then, though, he hopes to have moved on. A senior Republican close to him says Blackwill's ambition is "boundless," and some Administration insiders say he could become National Security Adviser if Bush wins re-election and Rice decides to leave her post. But all of that may hinge on whether Blackwill can get Iraq safely through November...