Word: laming
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...there is a vast difference between the lame NSA thriller and the religion-questioning smash...
...Europe; and the country's youth, who will live less well than their parents, or so 60% of French people believe. It's an explosive situation. In the best scenario, it will lead to a rupture of a bankrupt social model. At worst we'll end up with a lame "appeasement" like the one that led France to humiliating defeat in 1940. Failing to rein in public spending for fear of displeasing those who use and abuse it would amount to precisely that today. In Strange Defeat, a superb essay written in the aftershock of France's capitulation...
...Maybe that’s because that stuff is lame! Instead, the band exhibits remarkably good taste...
...always a good five or 10 years behind commercial marketing," says Bill Hillsman, an advertising consultant who created famously roguish campaigns for Jesse Ventura and Ralph Nader. "They're cautious organizations. They can't change their natures." But before we go too far down the politicians-are-so-lame road, it's worth noting that every once in a while, there's a signal moment, like Bill Clinton on Arsenio, when candidates catch up to the communication culture. With the viral success of the Dean campaign and the echo chamber of blogs, the 2004 cycle was full of such moments...
...should) have on the review. The curricular review is already in its late stages. Two-plus years of careful synthesis of ideas have yielded generally reasonable, if not laudable, proposals. At this point, the project needs debate and voting on ideas, not the formulation of new ones. And a lame-duck dean does not create any impediments to debating the current proposals.Fortunately for the College, awareness of the curricular review is increasing. If last Tuesday’s meeting in Kirkland House is any evidence, students and other members of the College community are giving serious thought to the issues...