Word: erraticism
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The showcase nature of Estrada's first days in jail suggest that President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo was trying to send a message to several constituencies. The administration wants the Philippine people to believe it's trying to eradicate endemic corruption. And it wants the international community, particularly those who might...
? The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that 792 million people in 98 developing nations still are not getting sufficient food to lead normal, healthy lives. Even in the industrialized world and in post-Soviet "countries in transition," 34 million people remain undernourished. In the Commonwealth of Independent States, the...
With three All-Americans in Gill, Bonney, and Doyle, Harvard was well prepared for the rough conditions that awaited in the wind-tunnel that was the Charles Basin. Particularly when conditions are erratic, the work of the crew becomes essential for success. Kikuchi, Bonney, and Yu took nature�...
A year ago, a handful of poets, including then U.S. poet laureate Robert Pinsky, joined an advisory board for a national poetry foundation that Desai was starting. Poet Heather McHugh says she agreed to serve on the assumption that Desai's university pledges had been "duly scrutinized." But at the...
That was all temporarily forgotten Wednesday night after Hideo Nomo, who pitched poorly in spring training, became the first Red Sox pitcher in 35 years to pitch a no-hitter. No-hitters are notoriously unpredictable and erratic, but this one was particularly surprising—if any Sox pitcher was...