Word: leape
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...smokers; innocent by-standers should not bear the burden of their fellow inhabitants' addiction. The existing policy already prohibits smoking in upperclass houses and the Yard dorms, and no student may be forced to live with any student who smokes. So the new policy is not an unprecedented leap; instead, it seems merely to assure non-smokers that their environment is truly smoke-free...
...recent days, millions were celebrating the idea that a man actually rose from the dead, while another doubtless felt that he was committing a holy act that would gain him a place in heaven when he strapped a bomb to his body and entered a Tel Aviv restaurant. The leap of faith is--and has to be--a plunge into the unrational (which to skeptics seems "unreasonable"), and by its nature it is a move that leaves the rest of us behind. Every religion is a different language that, to those outside it, makes as little sense as Mandarin dialogue...
...portions." And Clinton, after the failure of his massive health-care program in 1994, seems to have reached the same conclusion. So it is likely that the courtship of Washington's hottest couple this year will look like this: Trent and Bill, holding hands and taking, if not a leap, then at least one sensible step at a time...
Chances are few and far between to catch this team in action at the Palmer-Dixon courts. Most of the schedule is comprised of road games, but April 18th and 19th matches versus Cornell and Princeton are a chance for all of us to put on our shorts, leap over the toxic river and cheer on the Crimson...
...little unformed, a little less than totally grownup in all his performances. That's what makes Donnie Brasco so important. As Jacobs says, "It's the strong, manly role that Hollywood wanted him to do for so long." And more. For as director Newell (himself making a quantum leap from the frothy Four Weddings and a Funeral) observes, Brasco "is a hard man, a brutal man," operating in a narrative that offers him no convenient escape clauses, no soft or fanciful evasions of fate. Forced in anguish to abandon his real family for his Mob family--his wife, whose patience...