Word: grab
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...play in the family's disappearance, both O'Hair friends and foes have offered scenarios including kidnapping, murder and flight to New Zealand with the funds. After a decade of infamy and two more in a slide toward obscurity, Madalyn Murray O'Hair, by her absence, has managed to grab the spotlight again...
...white posters tell me that Senator Paul Wellstone, one of only a handful of politicians I truly respect, is going to speak at the IOP on Friday. I show up at the Kennedy School half an hour early to grab a good seat, but the first few rows of the Starr Auditorium, virtually empty, are reserved for important people. So I hike to the rear of the hall and park in a sea of K-Schoolers who spend the next half-hour swapping stories about foolish things college kids have been saying in their classes. ("He made this comment...
...well defined as those etched onto silicon chips. The results are those behavioral mileposts that never cease to delight and awe parents. Around the age of two months, for example, the motor-control centers of the brain develop to the point that infants can suddenly reach out and grab a nearby object. Around the age of four months, the cortex begins to refine the connections needed for depth perception and binocular vision. And around the age of 12 months, the speech centers of the brain are poised to produce what is perhaps the most magical moment of childhood: the first...
...cornered the market on goodness, and they need to be challenged." He claims that despite his opposition to racial preferences, he believes in affirmative-action outreach programs and efforts to upgrade public schools in poor neighborhoods. "What I want to do is refashion the concept of affirmative action, grab on to those things that I think the American people will support." In short, Connerly believes affirmative action must be destroyed in order to save it. That's a pretty good joke, to be sure, but it's no laughing matter...
Eighty-one pages into The Good Book (Morrow; 383 pages; $25), his entertaining bid to grab serious Bible study back from the religious right, Peter Gomes quotes his guiding spirit: not St. Paul, Paul Tillich or scores of other cited exegetes, but obscure Yale historian and teetotaler Roland Bainton, who in 1958 defended his abstinence "based on biblical principles [although] not based on biblical precepts or biblical practice." Gomes applies this same distinction to biblical texts on slaves, Jews, women and homosexuals, explaining why each group's persecution or exclusion, even if derived literally from Holy Writ, runs counter...