Word: exacting
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...thus unattainable, I never have to declare victory and face the frightening specter of complacency.Hence my love for the Fung Wah Bus. And, I think, hence my countless classmates who have four- or five-line descriptions of their summer location on their facebook.com profiles, listing in excruciating detail the exact dates they will be in Bermuda, New York, Cairo, Madrid, and Venice. Their whirlwind tours and my own (New York-Cambridge-London-Paris-Grenoble) reflect more than just the tremendous opportunities available to Harvard students (the first two legs of my European trip have been generously funded by College research...
...their continued ability to lob rockets into Israel, has created a problem of perception for both Israel's leaders and the Bush Administration. The Israeli public has been questioning whether the war is actually being won, while Hizballah's survival as a fighting force and its ability to exact a price from Israel has boosted its standing not only in Lebanon, but throughout the Arab world. Indeed, if international demands for a truce are heeded on the basis of the present battlefield reality, the outcome would look more like a hard-fought tie than a decisive victory for Israel...
...sort of ur-American nimbus that recalls every place and no place. Applebee's outlets tend to be built in suburbs that have no distinct identity on their own - no distinct "neighborhood" - which is why Applebee's slogan ("Eatin' good in the neighborhood") is so brilliant. It recalls the exact thing that's lacking...
...good at guesstimating distances, it's not perfect. When my wife and I tested it, it tended to say we went a tad farther than we really did. Serious runners should calibrate it to their stride. To do this, you go to a place where you know an exact distance (Apple suggests a school track), and follow simple instructions under the Calibrate menu item...
...Several commentators wondered at the time, and I do now, whether the essay would have been deemed so objectionable if the two people had been of the same color - and whether the furor was as much a matter of politics as of propriety, since it was published at the exact time of the Civil Rights demonstrations, and racist violence, in the South...