Word: manner
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...reservation - calmly facing down emotional chaos. But what is really terrific about his quietly insinuating work - especially as it flies in the face of Borat's moment - is its (dare I say it?) compassion. He doesn't have or encourage contempt for his people. He loves them in the manner that Preston Sturges once loved his improbable dreamers - without sentimentalizing them but without forgetting that like all of us their misplaced passions are really kinda funny. And infinitely forgivable...
...today’s world. It is a necessity both in the classroom at Harvard and in the quest to succeed in the working world. The people who are most successful at achieving their goals are arguably those who can express their ideas in the most convincing and articulate manner to those around them. And to be an active citizen and leader—the type of person Harvard seeks to mold—one must be able to speak well...
...challenges they will face beyond college. Most of us are not in the running to become scholars content in understanding one specialized area of the world, as Mankiw’s ideas seem to suggest. Rather, most of us wish to grapple with the big issues in an integrated manner...
...course, one might argue The Game is worth one’s attendance just to see Harvard Stadium, a National Historic Landmark for which football itself has changed. The forward pass, the stuff of decades of highlight reels, was adopted because the sport was played in a dangerously confined manner 100 years ago, and the Crimson’s concrete venue could not be widened to stretch out the action.Still, says Aidan, “Harvard Stadium looks like Gladiator, the movie, but only in a creepy way. And let’s be real: we will never fill...
...After an hour's searching, Richards and his companion, a local hunter, found the source: a "warty brown blob" squatting on moss in a patch of nettles. When he reached over and gently took hold of the blob, it twisted viciously in a very unfroglike manner and bit him on the hand. "I was shocked," he says. "Frogs don't normally bite you. There's only one other frog in P.N.G. that does that." The animal's bite, coupled with its unique cry and strange appearance, told Richards he had snared a place in the zoological textbooks with the discovery...