Word: grounded
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...widespread willingness to frame the debate in this manner belies a dangerous trend in America's deliberation regarding the moral status of homosexuality. This fissure, if allowed to widen, will make it utterly impossible for each side of the debate to reach common ground. There are several arguments against the moral acceptability of homosexuality which, whether convincing or not, deserve attention...
Quibbling about minute imperfections aside, oneof the changes that affects students most has beenthe replacement of the two large ground floorclassrooms with three smaller, cozier ones. Eachof these new classrooms are wired to the hilt withaudiovisual technology. Wall-mounted speakers,permanent video projectors and fully-automatedscreens make showing videos a simple process.Simple, that is, except for the fact that theinner walls of each classroom is made of glass.So, in spite of the high-tech, fully automaticblackout window shades, light from the hallwaycannot be blocked and provides enough glare torender the movie screen nearly unwatchable.Perhaps the architect momentarily forgot that hewas...
...covered a lot of ground about international law that I think made a lot of sense," said Richard S. Froom, a first year law student...
...cities he had visited in America, Boston was the one that most reminded him of his beloved Dublin (where he moved in 1972). Perhaps that explains why Heaney chose Cambridge, his home-away-from-home, as the place where he would personally unveil his two most recent works --Opened Ground (Poems 1966-1996) and a translation-in-its-final-stages of Beowulf. The former work is a comprehensive anthology containing a large selection of poems from Heaney's previous books (up to and including 1996's The Spirit Level), several excerpts from his translation work and his Nobel acceptance speech...
While in town, Heaney also fulfilled his duties as Ralph Waldo Emerson Visiting Poet by giving several lectures about, and readings from, Opened Ground and Beowulf. Heaney is known for his humorous, warm and gentle spirit, a spirit than infuses even the most violent and political of his poems, and also for his tendency to avoid the "celebrity poet" spotlight. (In fact, he was in the Greek islands when the Nobel Prize announcement was made.) This came across in Heaney's three lectures and three "talking shop" sessions (informal talk-cum-question-and-answer sessions), in which the always-congenial...