Word: inner
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Harvard is being seduced by surface or "brochure" diversity--the kind that is visible in the glossy college pamphlets we get from admissions office. It is packageable and media-friendly. It satisfies public relations needs. Photographs cannot differentiate between students who grew up in a rural town or an inner city neighborhood, or which students' parents are taxi drivers or doctors...
...secret that the main beneficiaries of affirmative action are not the disadvantaged youth from the inner city, but upper middle class minority students, many of whom have lived in white enclaves for most of their lives and who apply from many of the same privileged schools as other students who traditionally attend Harvard. That is not to say there aren't anecdotal exceptions for the enriching effects of affirmative action. But overwhelmingly, the backgrounds that these students come from, the advantages and opportunities that they have had, are similar to those of other students who attend Harvard. There...
...next year the agency learned why. The CIA has never had much luck penetrating the inner circles of Gaddafi's government. But because Libya has few skilled workers, it imports thousands of foreign technicians for big construction projects. The agency was able to develop a network of informants among the foreign workers, and one of them now reported that Gaddafi had big plans for the Rabta hardware. Much of it would eventually be moved to a new chemical-weapons plant inside a mountain near Tarhunah. CIA spy satellites immediately began pointing their cameras at the mountain. Secret cables went...
...giant cloud of gas and dust that can spread over a million miles. The cloud spews from the comet itself, as the sun's heat turns its dirty, icy surface into dirty water vapor mixed with other gases. If a comet is on its maiden voyage to the inner solar system, though, its surface is encrusted with dust, which prevents much evaporation. The first visit may only loosen the crust, while later trips allow the ice to evaporate freely. That was evidently the problem with Kohoutek...
...head and blew part of it away. Nobody can know just what monsters of the psyche drove the strange moonfaced man's mind to crack at that moment, or why he chose the gentlest, most innocent of the school's 729 pupils to be the victims of his inner torments (see Essay). For those who lived through it, the questions have but one answer. "Evil visited us yesterday," said Ron Taylor, the school's headmaster and one of the first to reach the scene of the killings. "We don't know why, we don't understand it, and I guess...