Word: gravest
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...foreign-language movie grossing $130 million in North America is likely to have imitators. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon inspired a slew of upmarket Chinese-language action films. Director Zhang Yimou's Hero--retitled Jet Li's Hero for its U.S. release--is the gravest, the most ravishingly beautiful. The best...
...don’t get a great run either, but the stereotypes for women are often archaic. In trying to rationalize my enjoyment, I don’t bother with the debate as to whether these programs are scripted or simply acted out. In the end, our gravest generalizations about the sexes are confirmed regardless: Men choose blondes, women choose money and the rest get kicked off the island...
...result of the presence of American troops, the country has become a magnet for terrorist groups which have been carrying out deadly attacks on civilians. The American corporations with contracts in Iraq have also failed to improve the state of the economy or rebuild the infrastructure. And in the gravest of Iraq’s losses, an estimated 20,000 Iraqi civilians and 30,000 Iraqi soldiers have died...
...year has passed since student freedom in course choice faced its gravest test in recent memory. But while Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby’s petrifying preregistration proposal may be dead and buried, it is heartening to note that student interest in enhancing the course selection process has not ebbed. Last Wednesday, student members of the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) presented a report recommending a number of ways for professors to make shopping period more valuable to students...
...Russian President Vladimir Putin's efforts to conflate Russia's bloody quagmire in Chechnya with America's global struggle against terrorism, the truth was made abundantly clear in Quinn-Judge's article. Chechnya is truly a forgotten heart of darkness, and its people are suffering the gravest crimes against humanity. The localized Chechen conflict has dynamics that are unrelated to al-Qaeda's terrorist struggle against the West. Thank you for reminding us of the Chechens, who seem to have been forgotten by the West. BRIAN GLYN WILLIAMS Somerville, Mass...