Word: grounded
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Harvard was competitive in the second half, making up ground behind nine points on four-for-six shooting by junior center Paul Fisher. Harvard closed to within five, and then three at the four-and three-minute marks, but Brown's 62 percent shooting in the second half prevented any sustained come-back, and the Bears pulled away in the closing minutes...
...course continues to be the premier training ground for publishing's future leaders," he said...
...specific. But if one reads between the lines, the news is not good for the President. It's terrible. In Genesis 38: 8-10, God commands a man named Onan to marry his brother's widow. Reluctant to impregnate her, Onan commits coitus interruptus, spilling his seed on the ground. How does God deal with Onan's seminal wastefulness? "And the thing which he did displeased the Lord: wherefore he slew him also...
...case for Drudge--who complacently says his reports are 80% accurate--is that there ought to be a middle ground between the highest standards and none at all. And the Internet, which can be sort of halfway between a private conversation and formal publication, is a good place for that middle ground. The middle ground, of course, should be acknowledged as such, either explicitly or by convention. People should understand that the information they get this way is middling quality--better than what their neighbor heard at the dry cleaner's but not as good as the New York Times...
...surface, Taylor Branch's Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65 (Simon & Schuster; 746 pages; $30) keeps to the high ground. The moral and legal victories of the civil rights movement leave reasonable Americans feeling hopeful and good about themselves. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s nonviolent confrontations continue to reassure the fearful suburbs. The bushwhacked Medgar Evers and the murdered civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner become martyrs for an inspiring cause. We Shall Overcome is a crossover...