Word: deem
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...Carter is well aware that many Americans deem his post 9-11 journey to Cuba a potential mistake - he doesn't care. Even if Cuba does have biological weapons, he reasons, shunning the nation won't help eliminate them. But talking might...
...marry, and none of these countries is known for having a substantially higher level of genetic diseases in its population. Here at home, 19 states already permit first cousins to marry and, based on the evidence currently available, there is no reason to allow the other 31 states to deem such marriages illegal...
...Both approaches encourage befuddlement and second-guessing (perhaps something stodgy academics and former government bureaucrats deem laudable) but neither provides feedback of any real sort. The student with two grades on his paper guesses he needs improvement but doesn’t now how to improve (because there is no need, of course, to encourage TFs to provide substantive qualitative remarks or to encourage professors to interact more with students). Likewise, the employer with two numbers on a student’s transcript guesses that student didn’t have to work hard for that common seminar...
...Live celebrates a return to roots, then Anti-Pop Consortium are hip hop uprooted, making the kind of rap that only record store geeks deem safe listening. Rather than following through on the music’s forebears, they stretch it to its outer limits, showing off its capacity for outward expansion. Screw soul, they seem to say—theirs is the sound of extraterrestrial mechs appropriating hip hop for twisted, brilliant experiments...
This is national infant Immunization Week. Now that's not a subject I would normally deem column worthy, but in this case the irony is too rich to ignore. For even as it celebrates the benefits of childhood vaccination, the U.S. is running out of the very vaccines needed to do the job. The biggest shortfalls: chicken-pox vaccine, various tetanus vaccines and the so-called pneumococcal conjugate vaccine...