Word: graying
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days - a title whose meaning becomes clear only about halfway through the film - is Christian Mungiu's startlingly good drama set in 1987, during the end of Romania's Ceausescu regime. The burdens of Soviet-style dictatorship have imposed a gray pall on the country, putting most of the citizenry in a perpetually sour mood. The black market, for shampoo and Kent cigarettes, is on each street corner, in every college dormitory. That's where we meet Otilia (Annamaria Marinca), a smart, illusionless student, and her pretty, mopey roommate Gabita (Laura Vasiliu). Gabita is despondent...
...recalled as "so beautiful" pushed his arms through the bars of the cell and cuffed them so tightly he couldn't move. Then, he says, she poked his eye with her finger so hard he couldn't see afterward. Three months after the incident, Mohammed's left eye was gray and glassy, allowing only modest vision of blurry shapes. He says the guards at Abu Ghraib drank whisky and walked the halls with cans of beer. And he says he saw an American guard having regular sex with an Iraqi woman prisoner on the floor above and across the hall...
...simply for making it past the first few “weed out” weeks. On the other hand, in a large Core class, it would be more reasonable to enforce a regular grade distribution.To try to create some administrative rule that accommodates all of the shades of gray between these two extremes and yet still fairly measures “excellence” is impossible. It is better to leave judgments of academic excellence to professors who directly observe the quality of student work and understand the nature of the course than to administrators looking at aggregate statistics.Overhauling...
...HDAG to the Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (CCSR) “for further review.”The two-member CCSR is responsible for reviewing issues surrounding the University’s investments.The committee has yet to respond to the HDAG proposal, but the students remain hopeful. Elizabeth Gray, the CCSR secretary, declined to comment last week.Nationwide, the divestment movement remains energized, fueled by Harvard’s decision two years ago to divest from PetroChina. One activist group, the Sudan Divestment Task Force, is overseeing a campaign to pressure state governments and other institutions to adopt divestment policies...
Each time a migraine occurs, Welch and others have found, the periaqueductal gray matter fills with oxygen, which triggers chemical reactions that deposit iron in that section of the brain. As the iron builds up, the brain's ability to block out pain decreases. That may explain why many migraineurs become more sensitive to pain with each episode...