Word: foremost
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Calling Dershowitz “one of America’s foremost legal minds”—and saying that he too would have been one had he ever applied to law school—Colbert began the interview by asking about the knife and “why it’s cutting...
...said Eck, the Wertham professor of law and psychiatry in society. Eck said that she was shocked when she learned that Ramadan, a Swiss citizen and currently a visiting professor at Oxford University, had been denied entry to the United States. “He is one of the foremost thinkers and interpreters of Islam and the West,” Eck said, acknowledging his reputation as an advocate of Muslim integration into Western society. “These are exactly the sorts of Muslim voices that we want to nurture,” she added. Under the guidance...
...Brave and the Bold” is, first and foremost, utterly confusing. As a collection of covers ranging from Devo to Don Williams, chosen for the first collaboration between shambler Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy (Will Oldham) and math geeks Tortoise, both weird in their own ways, how could it not be? Still, as I listened through again and again, trying to put my finger on what exactly goes wrong, I found myself enjoying it more and more: confusing and confused as it is, there is something here, perhaps accidental, that manages to make it work...
According to two CNN/Gallup polls, 24 percent of Americans believed in April 2000 that a loved one could be killed on American soil in a terrorist attack; in July 2005, that number had grown to 47 percent. That’s pessimism, and, probably, the foremost characteristic associated with Jews—other than “the nose”—is their pessimism...
...First and foremost, be as natural as you can. Go with the flow. The minute you try to look for your perfect moment, awkwardness will set in. At the same time, you do need to set up the conversation a little bit. For example, maybe switch your topic of conversation from the sheep brains you dissected in biology class to the fact that you like the way she laughs. My guess is it would be hard to find an opportunity to lock lips during a scalpel-filled tête-à-tête...