Word: containedness
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There is an axiom in American politics that says whenever a sitting President is running for a second term, the election is more a referendum on him than a judgment on his opponent. President George W. Bush has taken this truism to a new level. With just under a year...
London has declared war on pigeons (or "air rats," as some call them). Mayor Ken Livingstone last month imposed an $85 fine on anyone who feeds the birds in Trafalgar Square, where numbers fell from 4,000 to just 200 after a 2001 ban on feed sellers and the recruitment...
Along with two-bit pyrotechnics, the package also contained a banner that read “No School on Monday”—an obvious attack on Harvard’s Thanksgiving break calendar. The clumsily anti-intellectual construction stings with all the force of a soggy slice...
The device contained fireworks and a banner, both of which would have been displayed before the crowd at an undetermined point during The Game.
Perhaps this sense of college’s yawning openness is what made Clerks seem so attractive to me last Thursday. The movie depicts characters whose worlds are smaller, whose paths are clearly, almost painfully defined, and recalls those small, clearly defined years from my own life which could nearly...