Word: dim
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...Prize in economics?talk on "Reason Before Identity." A long queue of students were waiting for admission; and I had to cram into one of the uncomfortable seats upstairs. Sen, in his heavy academic robes, began brilliantly, with a joke about how he had just been pestered by a dim-witted immigration official at Heathrow Airport who couldn't grasp the notion that an Indian like Sen could be the Master of Trinity College at Cambridge University. From then on, things went downhill. As Sen began unraveling his theories of personal identity, I realized that I disagreed with everything...
...night." It's when deals are done, money is exchanged, and candidates put last-minute pressure on voters. The atmosphere brings out the louts and alcohol abusers. Dressed in civvies, Curragh and Vei Koso head out after dinner in a four-wheel-drive to show their presence; in the dim, 40-watt glow of surrounding villages, officials are working late to ensure they're ready to meet the first voters when polling begins at 7 a.m. Curragh leaves the vehicle to caution one of chief Daga's buddies, who is drinking beer by the side of the road. After some...
...last chief to shake the mysterious visitor's hand. He sees in the movement echoes of his adopted faith - the figure in white, staying for several years before disappearing but promising to return - and says the blend makes sense on Tanna. "When Tannese first converted, we were in a dim light," he says, looking over the glistening sea. "But after John Frum came we knew our kastom should not be destroyed, that you can be Christian but know your culture as well." Which is perhaps why on Tanna, you will find pastors drinking kava, and kastom men flying foreign flags...
...Conn. With the 1964 discovery of a two-legged creature with razor-sharp claws he called Deinonychus, or "terrible claw," and subsequent work cementing his theory, he began a campaign, largely successful, to convince scientists that at least some of the prehistoric beings were not, as long assumed, slow, dim-witted reptiles but speedy, warm-blooded, carnivorous predators that had much in common with today's flightless birds...
...decision" to give up its nuclear weapons. But, asks Balbina Hwang, a North Korea expert at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C., "What if they have?and their strategic decision is not to give up their nukes?" In that case, prospects for settlement of this crisis will remain as dim as the lights in Kim's benighted kingdom...