Word: clarion
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...enters the tournament with an outstading season record of 24-3. Among his competitors, DeNunzio will look to overtake No. 1-ranked Mark Angle of Clarion and No. 4 Michael Lightner of Oklahoma, both of whom dealt him losses at last year's national championships...
When newly appointed Dartmouth College President James Wright announced two weeks ago that his institution would end its long Greek tradition, he sent a clarion call through the nation's universities. Premised on the noble goals of improving residential life and reducing alcohol abuse, this decision furthers a disturbing trend of social engineering prevailing among educational administrators...
...future is coming and Radcliffe's Bunting Institute has heard its clarion call. The Bunting Institute may be losing some of its flavor as a research institute for women by including men, but it will be gaining a powerful partner in Harvard--if and when a merger happens...
Another gadget my car won't get is Clarion's Auto PC ($1,200). It's a dash-mounted computer that's designed to accept simple voice commands, and will do everything from tune the radio or CD player to retrieve and read aloud e-mail or dial your cell phone from a contacts list. Sounds cool, but wait for the kinks to shake out; the person who demonstrated it for me couldn't get it to work properly...
...overcoming deep-rooted biases to invest in the health and well-being of girls as well as boys. In a world in which 1.5 billion people subsist on less than $1 a day, this Nobel Prize can be not just a celebration of a wonderful scholar but also a clarion call to attend to the urgent needs and hopes of the world's poor...