Word: clear
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...fact that poor countries can and will be crushed under the wheel of the global recession makes one point extremely clear. There is no league of nations, nor has there ever been one, perhaps because the interests of the largest powers are too widely separated. Since there is no forum to address the issues that could undermine the future health of all countries, the current lack of cooperation becomes a form of fatalism...
Editorial independence is the pillar of an effective college newspaper, and it is clear that the independence of the Emerald would have been threatened under the arrangement proposed by the board of directors. Though Smith and the board assured the students that the publisher would not make serious changes to the content of the newspaper, giving an outside source complete supervisory control nevertheless places the editorial freedom of the Emerald’s student editors in a precarious position...
...before circling around the crease, faking high, and sneaking it by UMass goalie Doc Schneider. Gibbons’ goal would be Harvard’s only score of the half, as Schneider denied the offense time after time. On one play, after the Minuteman defense failed to clear the ball, freshman attacker Kevin Vaughn found junior attacker Jesse Fehr streaking towards the net. From point-blank range, Fehr fired a shot at the lower right corner of the goal, but Schneider made a diving save to knock it away. “[Schneider] played great,” senior...
...themselves or for their respective governments such a power, but merely recognized certain rights to be God-given. Even the drafters of the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights appear by their language to have recognized certain natural rights, though the distinction between these and legal rights is less clear there. The quotes from various researchers in the article betray a lack of interest in the moral questions surrounding embryonic stem-cell research. By relegating to the category of ideology the principle that natural rights place some bounds on acceptable human behavior and scientific investigation, the current administration weakens...
Violence in Baghdad has dropped off markedly in the past year, but despite the calm days, it's clear that the capital has not entered a post-war phase...