Word: impressively
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...Committee's goal of winning a record 20 medals in these Games. (The tally from Nagano in 1998: 13.) In freestyle skiing's mogul and aerial events--bumps and jumps--wild man Jonny Moseley and the meticulous Eric Bergoust will be defending their respective titles. The mogul team is impressively deep. The women's bumpers, led by Hannah Hardaway and Shannon Bahrke, could sweep, or be swept, in an amazingly talented field led by Norway's Kari Traa. Overall, nothing less than a perfect run will win. That means big "airs," such as helicopters and other spectacular jumps. Moseley...
...News is like sitting inside a very patriotic video game. Thundering martial drums play over a Jan. 28 George W. Bush speech as the phrase WORDS OF WAR flashes across the screen, then zooms at you with the swoosh! of an attack jet. This is not news packaged to impress blue-America TV critics; it's NASCAR with Pentagon briefings. Call it crass or pandering--if you get your news from Jim Lehrer, you probably call it both--but it says, viscerally, that the news is worth getting passionate about. And perhaps because of its love of a good fight...
...humiliated Friday night when blockmate Gary A. Mohammed ’03 covertly filled his Grey Goose bottle with Gilbert’s vodka, which is distilled in Somerville and retails for $7 a liter. The scheme went awry when Mohammed drank the entire bottle in an effort to impress Tabitha G. Filney ’02. Though Filney is usually eager to welcome near-strangers who show up at her Mather tower door bearing signs of chronic alcohol abuse, she turned Mohammed away. “Is that Gilbert’s?” she asked...
...Yasser Arafat may have yet to impress anyone with his new "give-peace-a-chance" op-ed page charm offensive, but the pressure on him to rein in the gunmen isn't only foreign. A number of Palestinian political leaders and intellectuals have grown increasingly alarmed at what they characterize as the "militarization" of the intifada. They complain this not only reinforces antidemocratic tendencies in Palestinian political life, but is also a spectacularly bad strategy that has squandered international sympathy for Palestinian street protestors by shifting attention to Israelis suffering the horror of suicide bombings. Israeli reports suggest Arafat...
...hopes to encounter when one comes to Harvard as a bright-eyed first-year. He is wise, cosmopolitan and incisive, and he makes you think that you can be so too. In office hour discussions, he never looks at his watch. He chats thoughtfully and patiently, never trying to impress you, never making you feel like you’re failing to impress. The fact that he gets along with everyone is not reflective of a wariness to take a stand, only that when he does take a stand—in faculty meetings, in decisions about students, in philosophical...