Word: effective
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...existing archaelogical site in Jerusalem, the word spread throughout the West Bank and Gaza that Israel was digging under Islamic holy sites in a blatant gesture of hostility towards Israel's Muslim residents. The rumor was a lie, but it nonetheless had a quick and deadly effect. For three days, Palestinian mobs armed with automatic weapons, stones and bottles terrorized Israeli towns and army outposts. This was an offensive campaign: no Israeli soldiers retaliated with live ammunition until they came under Palestinian fire and had no choice...
Problems start to arise, however, with the boisterousness of the kid personas: they tend to take center stage. Sullivan plays Anna's two kid personas to great comic effect: now an outrageous Chevalierian accent, now a tiny, tiny child's voice. One scene involving a single peanut butter and jelly sandwich reaches epic proportions, and one fears for the moment that Sullivan will explode onstage. Her Anna seems understandable impatient at times to return to the other personas: they're more...
Although the new policies set forth by the Inter-Club Graduate Council went into effect this summer, the undergraduate club presidents were unhappy with the keg ban and met Sunday night at the Fly Club to draft an alternative policy...
...just doing fact-finding at the moment," vice president Craig A. Lancaster '97 said. "We want to discover exactly what unusual rules are in effect on Head of the Charles weekend, and what the justification behind those rules...
...bleaching episode killed 95% of the corals off the Galapagos Islands. Global warming could also trigger more intense hurricanes, scientists fear. And while healthy reefs would no doubt recuperate from the pummeling, sick reefs might not. "What we worry about," says Smithsonian marine biologist Nancy Knowlton, "is a threshold effect, when so much stress piles up that all of a sudden the floor falls through...