Word: methods
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...true that she signed a form stating she would not pass along any messages from Abdel Rahman. But she did not believe (and she still does not) that she was communicating any messages from Abdel Rahman to his supporters in Egypt. To Stewart, her actions were a method by which she could convey her client’s political views. This is, admittedly, a very thin and tenuous line that Stewart has tried to walk on; the government is right to prosecute her for her actions. But does she deserve to go to jail for 30 years? After...
...they say, unbidden, that he is The Nicest Guy in the World. And when my in-house theater maven, Mary Corliss, chatted with him a while back, she said he was as gracious in person as he is imposing on stage. So his performance at the Regency isn?t method acting, apparently. It?s just an unfurling of his natural charm...
...Dali had found his natural home among the Surrealists, who were fascinated, as he was, with the unconscious. But he departed almost at once from their favorite method of arriving there--automatic writing and drawing, in which words and pictures were set instantly to paper with a minimum of conscious deliberation. As an alternative, he came up with his "paranoiac-critical" method, which was an attempt to enter a kind of delirium while keeping a part of the mind detached, alert to the imperatives of the rational world. Whatever that meant, it led him to the dazzling trompe l'oeil...
Massachusetts Gov. W. Mitt Romney said this week that he will try to ban a method of obtaining stem cells that both Harvard University’s nascent Stem Cell Institute and other researchers in the state currently plan to undertake...
Perhaps more importantly, in the most recently released set of Pairwise Rankings, (a formula that imitates the method used by the NCAA Selection Committee in determining the bracket for the Frozen Eight,) Harvard jumped to No. 5 from the tenuous eighth position...