Word: correctible
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...tragedies of the past. “The soil can become fertile if the past is used as a mirror for the future, or it can remain infertile if unresolved history is left as ongoing conflict,” he said in a lecture yesterday. “Correct understanding of past history is a precondition for the good relations of future.” Kim said that Harvard has a role to play in smoothing over the tensions that exist between Korea and its counterparts. “Ancient history must be respected by China and Japan...
...myself wondering something I never thought I would wonder: How cool a parent should I be? Lily has always been interested in the Web. A couple of weeks ago, we found a Flash game on a Teletubbies site involving five brown bunnies that need to be placed in their correct bunny-shaped holes. To my amazement, Lily shooed my hands away from the track pad and started slowly nudging bunnies toward burrows. When the fifth bunny hit home--and an unseen Tinky Winky shouted, "Yaaaaaay!"--every neuron in my daughter's brain seemed to fire at once. Her skull practically...
...couple of Florida delis and thanked his volunteers at a couple of his campaign offices - he didn't visit any polling stations - his reaction to why-the-kooky-one-state-strategy questions was oddly muted. "My message for today is go vote, so the strategy will be correct," he said with a wan smile...
...correct, they'll fit right in. Many of the homes in this neighborhood are owned by foreigners who paid more for them than most people make over five lifetimes. The house next door, which has a pool under the driveway, is owned by an Arab family who bought it for $20.5 million. And a few minutes' walk away, in Kensington Palace Gardens, Indian steel magnate and Britain's richest man Lakshmi Mittal owns a manse that's reportedly worth about $112 million...
...Your selecting Putin as POY certainly surprised me. I was expecting Al Gore or maybe someone else. However, your choice was correct. Recognition of Putin as a world leader has been long overdue. The West needs to engage him and work with him, not against him. Russia's importance in the world cannot be ignored. The country still has a big nuclear arsenal and substantial oil reserves. This is not the cold war. It is the 21st century. Majid Rauf, Lahore, Pakistan...