Word: gainful
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...greatest enigma in college basketball is something seemingly too simple: win on the road.Yet in any league, for any team, it is the hardest thing to do.To become a road warrior, gain road fortitude, or excel in any other cliché one can choose is a challenge that brings even the best of programs to its knees.For Harvard, the team has dubbed it “road toughness.” And despite the disappointments of the weekend past, punctuated by its hard-fought 75-63 loss to Penn on Saturday night, the Crimson still believes it can transfer this...
...real magic trick is Hill's, and the transformation he works on his main character. Coyne begins the book as a cold, despicable misanthrope, but as we learn about the personal past that made him that way - he had an abusive father - we gain sympathy for him. Coyne changes, gaining humor in desperation, warming to the girlfriend he took for granted, and reconnecting with the music that he has all but abandoned. When confronted with real inhumanity, as opposed to his own affected coldness, Coyne softens unexpectedly, and his emotions wake up. We start to like him and sympathize with...
...police deny they are the source of the rumors and theories swirling through London, and even hardened conspiracy theorists--never in short supply in London's clubland--find it hard to explain what the boys in blue would stand to gain from such indiscretions. Still, each week, the stories pop up--and are then denied. One of the Prime Minister's advisers is said to have an explosive personal diary of events (he denies it); Downing Street is said to have a second, secret e-mail system ("stuff and nonsense," says an aide). But the idea that there...
...while some critics are frustrated that Lecter, whose past is only alluded to in previous books, would no longer remain a figure of mystery, Ulliel recognizes the merit of unearthing a Lecter’s history. “You may ultimately lose the mystery, but you gain a good thing in explaining the past.” To better understand the character of Hannibal Lecter, Ulliel watched dozens of films, read true stories about serial killers, and even spent several weeks at an autopsy clinic in Prague. A huge star in his native France, though relatively unknown to American...
...China the only country that stands to gain from this selective moral blindness. Africa is another success story, where for years massive human rights abuses went effectively unchallenged while the world arbitrarily decided to monitor other issues, such as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with eagle eyes. A bit of data from the Center for Public Affairs in Jerusalem: Between the years 2000 to 2003, Amnesty International released 52 reports on Sudan, where, even before Darfur, a heavily civilian-targeting civil war was killing hundreds of thousands. In the same interval, 190 were released about Israel...