Word: impressively
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Anna R. Himmelrich ’05, who started her blog while she had a summer internship in Atlanta, wrote in an e-mail that she enjoys her style of blogging—“personal narrative that explicitly strives to entertain rather than to impress the audience.” But Himmelrich said that exposing her personal thought has lead to some awkward experiences...
...adultery amendment was part of a reform package that has boosted women's rights, recognizing them as joint heads of households and splitting couples' assets equally after a divorce. Even Nebahat Akkoc, head of the leading women's center Ka-Mer (and a TIME European Hero in 2003), is impressed: "I spent my life fighting for these laws and suddenly they are on the books." She adds, however, that changing the law is not enough: they must now be implemented. The changes are most pronounced in the troubled southeast. Kurds who were once jailed for listening to Kurdish songs...
...which you had to guess what your Sims wanted, The Sims 2 lists specific aspirations for each character, such as throwing a party or buying a new TV. As you help them reach their goals, they earn points to get things like "cool shades," sunglasses they can wear to impress people, or a money tree, which really grows cash...
Before the curtain goes up at any concert venue around the country, the headlining act must engage in some backstage banter with local DJs, the children of corporate sponsors and whomever the Teamsters want to impress. The music industry calls this compulsory session the meet and greet, and because the spontaneity is scheduled and the patronage barely disguised, it is often the grimmest 15 minutes of any touring musician's day. But Tim McGraw loves it. He has his road crew set up a tent with a tiny stage and shabby-chic furniture. He keeps everyone plied with Bud Light...
...have to like Becky, and thanks to Reese Witherspoon's perky performance we do, not least because we have all been in her position, desperate to impress our betters. Moreover, director Mira Nair has created a pretty panorama--populated with solid actors like Bob Hoskins and Gabriel Byrne--of English life in the Georgian era for Becky to master. It is more exotic than Thackeray's, more laden with the booty of a burgeoning colonial empire, but Nair, Indian by birth, is entitled to her opinions about the exploitations on which England's wealth was based...