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When Sarah B. Levit-Shore ’04 talks about red tape, she cannot help but get excited—waving her hands for emphasis and speeding up her speech.
Typical Saturday night: I’d say she probably hangs out with her Theta friends, goes to final clubs and drinks—emphasis on the final clubs.
Dion was raised in Quebec and learned English as an adolescent, so her lyrical emphasis is slightly but consistently odd. She also sings generic love songs with frightening sincerity; the combination makes her seem a little bit kooky and a little bit spooky.
In the U.S. and Europe, authorities were exultant over Zubaydah's arrest. American Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said dryly, "There's no question but that having an opportunity to visit with him is helpful." He added, "Sometimes I understate for emphasis." French officials, who have been tracking the Palestinian...
With so much recent emphasis on understanding and alleviating ethnically-motivated conflicts, for the media and government to take no notice of the violence in India makes no sense.