Word: leape
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...such circumstances and that in a democracy it is no good for the people not to publicly deal with that fact and to hypocritically condemn such practices. Democracies have to get their “hands dirty” according to Dershowitz, who took a few more seconds to leap over the Constitution, the Geneva Accords, the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Man, and any other treaty outlawing torture. And Dershowitz was merciful too—after all, is not torture less harmful than death? Dershowitz mentioned at that very moment he was suffering severe pain as a result...
Getting Harvard’s first programs to make the leap to Watertown has been somewhat difficult, Spiegelman said...
WATCHING ELLIE NBC, Tuesdays, 8:30 p.m. E.T.; LEAP OF FAITH NBC, Thursdays, 8:30 p.m. E.T. The networks have long resented HBO, with its nyah-nyah-ing slogan, "It's not TV. It's HBO." But these network sitcoms are aiming to climb on the HBO buzz wagon. Ellie has a pay-cable veneer--an edgy narrative style (each story unfolds in real time), a cinematic look and no laugh track--but the safe heart of a network show. As a lounge singer of a certain age sleeping with her band's married guitarist, Seinfeld alumna Julia Louis-Dreyfus...
Sample lyrics: “Get ready for the next step, Select the best step. It’s a leap in evolution/From the Internet revolution./Just pick a direction/In this world of connection./So many problems to solve—/You’ve got to evolve...Putting lipstick on a bulldog won’t transform enough,/Makeup can’t hide everything; change takes deeper stuff./Shift the mood, adjust your attitude, before you go online;/Find new habits of mind, don’t just dwell on what’s behind...
...Vonetta Flowers, a 24-year-old from Birmingham who had once wanted to be an Olympic track star, toe the line for their final run. Bakken stares toward the first, floodlit turn for a long minute - visualizing, focusing. Then she and Flowers pump their fists, pump up the volume, leap into their sled...