Word: frontals
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...wonder really. The Harvard finals system is a mental siege, not a straight-up, honorable open-field battle. At almost ever other institution in the country, students withstand a honorable frontal assault, their #2 pencils glinting in the sunlight and failing with glory as the finals process lets them have it straight away. Treacherous Harvard, on the other hand, will not meet us on the open field. It lies in wait, it cuts our supply lines, and tortures us with anticipation before it storms the castle...
...Garcia basically tells me that Rock in Rio is helping to brand AOL in the minds of Brazilians. An image enters my mind of a sizzling cattle brand being applied to the frontal lobe of a struggling South American being held down by three gringos in pinstriped suits. There are billboards for the festival all over town, in yellows and blues and greens, each featuring young, cool, good-looking, Brazilians who look on the verge of orgasm thanks to some combination of having tickets to Rock in Rio and/or being connected to the Internet thanks to America Online...
...court also waged a frontal assault on Judge Sauls' fact finding. The justices rejected his conclusion that Gore had not met his burden of showing that sufficient legal votes were rejected to warrant a recount. In part, they relied on what they called "the ultimate Catch-22" in Judge Sauls' approach: he had concluded there were not enough rejected votes without ever looking at the ballots themselves...
...Henry Louis Gates is now moving to a new level of engagement," he said. "He is launching a frontal attack on the digital divide...
...pretext for going negative themselves. But now it seems that the party of John Wayne is becoming the party of John Tesh. Bush wails like a cheap car alarm over the most minor incursion--and attacks at the same time. Last Friday he was the first to unleash a frontal-attack ad. And for a year, he's laced every speech with rhetoric aimed at Gore's integrity and concluded most of those speeches with a pledge to "restore honor and integrity to the White House." What's that if not personal...