Word: bow
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...start again, so I was grieved to see how the media lumped students together with destructive demonstrators. Necessary reforms may be forestalled again if French officials let a minority of students and unionists decide the fate of legislation. Today people react to policy changes with sensational demonstrations, and politicians bow to the pressure for fear of losing in the next elections. Pauline Gastaldi Nice, France Thank you for your very friendly and optimistic cover reporting on the French government's efforts at reform in the face of citizen resistance. Unfortunately, we are very, very far from solving the problem...
...Harvard Loves A Thug” in which she concluded that “something is very wrong when Harvard—whose motto is “veritas,” Latin for “truth”—feels comfortable instructing its alums to bow down to evil thugs.” A memo sent to alums seeking more information detailed North Korea’s “unique protocols” whereby guests are “expected to bow as a gesture of respect at the statue of Kim Il Sung...
After Warioware, we play scenes from the upcoming Legend of Zelda title, Twilight Princess, a moody, dark (by Nintendo's Disneyesque standards) fantasy adventure. Now I'm Errol Flynn, sword fighting with the controller, then aiming a bow and arrow, then using it as a fishing rod, reeling in a stubborn virtual fish. The third game, and probably the most fun, is also the simplest: tennis. The controller becomes a racket, and I'm smacking forehands and stroking backhands. The sensors are fine enough that you can scoop under the ball to lob it, or slice it for spin...
...story, “The Red Bow,” Saunders gives us perhaps the most explicit allegory of his vision of America’s slip down the slope toward war, following its misdirected push after 9/11—which he has discussed elsewhere in political essays. The protagonist, a nonspecifically small-town American father whose young daughter has been attacked and killed by a stray dog, moves from decking his town with FIGHT THE OUTRAGE posters to developing a “Three Point Emergency Plan” to sympathizing with his grieving wife?...
...Yale (5:46.2) eked out a three-seat win over Princeton (5:47.2), and the Crimson (5:47.3) followed just 0.1 seconds behind the Tigers.Over 500 meters, Harvard jumped both Princeton and Yale by close to a length, falling just short of Princeton by the width of a bow ball.“We certainly had momentum coming into the finish,” Yu said, “and it just seemed like we didn’t go early enough and came up short. We should have had more initiative and focus in the first strokes...