Word: guardedness
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Stanford Law School uses a closely-guarded "secret index". Although there is no guarantee of denial or admission because of the LSATs, the average score for an admitted candidate is 168 out of a possible 180.
Albee once explained in an interview that he interprets the play title, which refers to the song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?," as "Who's afraid of living life without false illusions?" All four characters cushion their own anxieties with closely guarded self-deceptions, and each eventually...
The key to Yeltsin's power has always been his ability to fan the tensions dividing his ministers. This strategy ensured that each man was undercut by his rivals, and enabled Yeltsin to act as the power-broking referee at the center. While his minions clawed at one another, Yeltsin...
ANNA-FRID LYNGSTAD, better known as the brunette one in ABBA, the '70s Ur-pop group, is back. A Swedish division of Warner Music is releasing her first album in 12 years, Djup Andetag (Deep Breath). It's in Swedish, so the songs may prove blessedly less tenacious than ABBA...
AILING. MEL TORME, 70, velvet-voiced song stylist; after a stroke; in Los Angeles. Torme was hospitalized in guarded condition after developing pneumonia and a partially collapsed lung.