Word: deadly
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...Greek and Latin among their coursework. This dearth of classical learning at the nation’s most prestigious university is no doubt lamentable—especially so as the current Core, with its multicultural distribution requirements, transitions into a general education program that leaves no place for dead languages in its “globalized” curriculum.Despite the anti-classical bias of today’s educators, a rudimentary knowledge in both Latin and Greek language and literature would well serve the cause of liberal learning and help produce more cosmopolitan and more thoroughly well-rounded graduates.While both...
...pray in times of crisis? After the fall of the twin towers, most prayers for self-preservation also included prayers for the dead and for the safety of all. That sort of bigger, more compassionate plea is not quite as automatic this time around. Is it all right to be straightforward in your imploring - to beseech God on behalf of you and your family's personal fortune - or is that somehow selfish? And is that all there is? Or is this prayer, too, expected somehow to encompass a bigger and more compassionate principle...
...internet, but given the expansion of wireless technology, this was harder than it seemed. One of the best reasons to oppose the Obama campaign right now is its promise of expanding wireless coverage to include the whole nation. If it weren’t for dead spots, I’d never accomplish anything...
...least there was no plague of frogs. McCain is running in a relay, and the man who is supposed to hand him the baton is 80 yards up the track, carrying a dishwasher on his back, blindfolded. Oh, and he's also dead...
...that long table that Todd Palin first scheduled a meeting with Walt Monegan, days after his wife's administration began. He showed Monegan three huge binders of evidence against Wooten, including a picture of a dead moose that had been shot illegally. After Monegan came back saying that there was no new actionable information, Todd began a very visible campaign of stewing and fuming, trying to get access to personnel files, calling up and down the Public Safety org chart...