Word: fading
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...racism, and it’s not because there’s an overriding sentiment of sympathy for Imus. People don’t really care because, well, the medium of radio just isn’t that popular anymore. And as a result, the Imus controversy will fade into oblivion...
...center, the Tigers (11-5, 4-1 Ivy) locked up their victory by winning one of two nearly simultaneous third-set tiebreaks over the Crimson to turn a 3-2 lead into a 4-3 win. Junior Dan Nguyen, playing at No. 3, saw three sets worth of work fade away in minutes along with Harvard’s hope of winning, as he dropped his tiebreak, 7-2.Playing two courts over, No. 1 sophomore Chris Clayton turned a 1-4 deficit in the tiebreak into a 7-4 match victory with six consecutive points, but lost his chance...
...White House is hoping this new controversy - one potentially with real legal and not just political consequences - will fade fast. Rove's lawyer came out Friday to try and tamp the story down, saying that Rove thought his RNC account e-mails were being retained. "His understanding starting very, very early in the Administration was that those e-mails were being archived," the attorney, Robert Luskin, said. And already the White House's massive document dump is making useful headlines...
Even in comedy, where women were mandatory for smart repartee and the fade-out kiss, guys have elbowed them out of the equation. Forget Tracy and Hepburn. Today the standard pairing is some combination of Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Ferrell and one or more Wilsons. Wedding Crashers, Talladega Nights and Blades of Glory are basically male love stories: boy bonds with boy, boy breaks up with boy, boy and boy make up. The female interest is strictly nominal...
...from superficial architectural and geographical disparities, each is an equivalent incubator of diversity. Without the self-perpetuating composition encouraged during the pre-randomization era—freshmen jocks and artists, for example, were undoubtedly attracted to the House with the preponderant population of each—House traditions inexorably fade. Any individual character associated with a House, indeed, will dissipate following the inauguration of each new—and completely random—class of freshmen...