Word: exemplar
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...last week, we haven't "war-gamed" it. The President himself seemed miffed, sputtering sentence fragments when asked by reporters how long the war would last. Bush has taken to warning us about an extended struggle, but one senses he doesn't believe it. He is, after all, an exemplar of a generation for whom the purest expression of "long" is the television mini-series. He'll have to learn to tolerate the ragged rhythms of armed conflict in the weeks to come, and so will...
...epiphany: none of us could remember a time when such divergent organizing traditions blended so seamlessly in a single action. The legacy of that week is felt today in the movement against war in Iraq and manifest in groups like the Alliance for Sustainable Jobs and the Environment, an exemplar of "blue-green" solidarity forged that day. The legitimate expectations of working families and the imperatives of sustainable development are now a part of the conversation about the direction of U.S. policy in an increasingly globalized economy...
...Academy Awards on March 23, JACK NICHOLSON will be up for his fourth Oscar. Three decades ago, he was just hitting his stride as an exemplar of the new Hollywood star...
...Lensky, John A. McMunn ’04 is, like Lynch, an exemplar of the talent that Harvard’s undergraduate community has to offer. His musical and expressive range is impressive and his execution is spirited. His pure love for Olga is discernible in the vibrato of his ample voice. Erin Baker’s Olga, on the other hand, had a far too guttural and nasal voice, and her Russian was incessantly garbled...
...Turkey is not yet a done deal. Ironically, perhaps, Turkey is one of only a handful of secular democracies in the Islamic world - and an exemplar, therefore, of President Bush's vision of a post-Saddam Iraq. And it's not yet clear which way its parliament will vote on an issue that pits Turkey's key strategic ally, the U.S., squarely against the 90 percent of the country's electorate that opposes...