Word: leape
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...It’s completely antithetical to progress, because they want us to turn back the clock to what Riverside used to be,” McCready says. “They’ve made the leap that any development in Riverside is unacceptable...
...Virgin Update: C. Alan Elliot ’04 made the leap from Never Been Kissed to Deep Impact last weekend…Kim S. Kilpatrick ’05 finally popped her cherry, lubricated by about a quart of Everclear punch. God, how we wish that was only a metaphor?...
...richer countries tend to be more secular only because they can entertain illusions of total security and complacency that the rest of the world knows are delusional. Smart people aren’t being more rational or intelligent by adhering to atheism. They’ve just chosen one leap of faith over another. And yet many of us have not enough perspective on our own life nor objectivity in our thinking to acknowledge that, however you live, it makes more sense to work off of a tried model than make everything up for the first time...
...Musharraf announced that Pakistan would cooperate with the U.S., he knew that radicals and sympathizers of accused mastermind Osama bin Laden and his Taliban host would take to the streets in protest. But it was, Pakistan's President calculated, what had to be done: one-part realpolitik, one-part leap of faith. There are risks, of course. He is courting chaos and possibly violence, but the rewards?the end of international sanctions, debt relief, millions of dollars in aid for refugees?could mean legitimacy abroad and perhaps, eventually, something approaching stability at home. Musharraf's acquiescence was, of course...
...does in the poem annotated below. Despite being an outsider in the rap game, this poem hearkens back to the days of yore, the 1980s, with multiple references to ’80s pop culture and an era of violence and drunk driving. This work represents a true evolutionary leap in urban poetry and is thus beloved...