Word: lacking
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...That's quite romantic. Remember, I'm ruled by romance. And the problem with the great modern-day restaurants is that they tend to lack romance. They force you down this road-you're having the tasting menu. They tell you what you're eating, they tell you how to eat it, they dictate to you, they patronize you. That's not about eating. You sit down at a table with the people you love. With your family. You break bread, you drink wine. You grow old slowly. As they say in France, you never grow old around the table...
...Have you gotten married since then? No. Not for lack of trying. I'm looking. But the great thing about coming to this place in my life and coming through this whole journey is that my life is so happy and good now, and so many great things came out of it, that if I find a husband now - and I hope I do - it's just going to be icing on the cake...
...president of “Feminists for Life” reported in a speech at Harvard Law School last night. Serrin M. Foster—who became the president of the anti-abortion organization in 1994—attributed the high number of abortions in college to the lack of options that many undergraduates have, and added that most co-eds must unfairly choose between school and raising their child. “I’m here to free women from abortion,” Foster said to a packed audience in Pound Hall. “Abortion...
...lack of transparency in these partnerships has aroused quite a stir among HMS students uncomfortable with the influence that drug companies may have on their professors’ course material, and with good reason. Harvard’s policy of not disclosing its teachers’ ties to drug companies must end. Similar to common practice at other medical schools, HMS must create a uniform and standardized way of disclosing its faculty members’ ties to their funding, regardless of the effort it will take to collect this data...
...that I'd made the long trip to Arakan, there was a strange lack of information on the Rohingya. Many locals denied their very existence. (The Burmese government, in a curious feat of logic, denies having mistreated the Rohingya, since there is, according to Foreign Minister Nyan Win, no such a minority group in Burma.) Then, a break: a Buddhist Arakan local confided that there were some ethnic Bengalis who lived in a nearby village. He guessed that they'd come from Bangladesh to Burma 10 or 20 years ago and were living in Arakan illegally. Would I like...