Word: dubiousness
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...easy. The play is stunted emotionally by its one-liner mentality, and while it may intentionally explore the superficiality of Hollywood culture in its dialogue, its affectation is almost good enough to fool the audience when the content begins to become serious.This line of thinking makes the ending seem dubious. The play explores the unwillingness of characters to open themselves up and become vulnerable, but by the end, everyone is still more shut than is expected.Still, Beane’s play ultimately accomplishes a great deal: four memorable, often riotously funny characters are crafted out of a series of delicate...
That has been a dubious honor in this year's chaotic Democratic race, especially for Hillary Clinton, who comes into the so-called Potomac Primaries after a challenging week. Not only did she admit to loaning her cash-strapped campaign $5 million in order to keep pace with Obama ahead of Super Tuesday, but on Sunday Clinton replaced her campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle with long-time confidante Maggie Williams, and Monday she had to reassure some nervous donors and endorsers that the nomination was still within her reach. Still, Clinton is nowhere near being counted out: she has raised...
...Although there is no direct evidence that rating agencies purposefully overrate these bonds, the fact that the agencies’ customers are the very same banks who are trying to sell these dubious securities raises conflict-of-interest issues. These rating agencies are thus not independent, objective judges of quality. Regardless of whether accusations against them are valid, such lack of transparency and failure to rate these securities accurately leaves rating agencies on the hook...
...easy. The play is stunted emotionally by its one-liner mentality, and while it may intentionally explore the superficiality of Hollywood culture in its dialogue, its affectation is almost good enough to fool the audience when the content begins to become serious.This line of thinking makes the ending seem dubious. The play explores the unwillingness of characters to open themselves up and become vulnerable, but by the end, everyone is still more shut than is expected.Still, Beane’s play ultimately accomplishes a great deal: four memorable, often riotously funny characters are crafted out of a series of delicate...
...don’t want to know precisely how my classes rank. Perhaps this means I’ll find myself in class where I loathe the professor or am doubled over by work. Better to have found this on my own terms than to have trusted a dubious number that predicts very little about what I want in my academic life.So let’s leave the Q-searching tools as they are: interesting final projects for computer science classes, and little else. Kindergarteners grow up from the color-by-numbers in Highlights magazine to blank pages for drawing...