Word: midstreamers
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...town hall meeting earlier this month, Kagan said she agreed that some people “take a while to get used to the thing” and perform better after their first year—including herself. “Numerous students...thought that applying it midstream would further highlight their first-year grades and deprive them of a chance to show that they could do better than they had done under the traditional system,” Kagan wrote in the e-mail. While a majority of second-year students said that they would have preferred that...
...book, like its predecessor, was a crystal-clear blueprint, in this case for extending Sunday spirituality to the rest of one's life. It employed the tropes of the self-help genre (A 40-day program! Exercises!) to chart a user's guide to living midstream Evangelical doctrine. (On God's wanting believers to be a "living sacrifice": "The problem with a living sacrifice is that it can crawl off the altar. We sing Onward, Christian Soldiers on Sunday, then go AWOL on Monday.") The Purpose Driven Life shipped 40 million copies worldwide, and Warren was suddenly famous and (despite...
...campaign to fan nationalist hysteria in Russia ahead of December's parliamentary elections, and the Presidential poll scheduled for next March. Just as in Soviet times, there's nothing like the specter of an external enemy, either to make the people accept that they don't change horses in midstream and let Putin stay - or to pave the way for someone way harsher than Putin. A strong hand to keep the country together. Just what the people need to have Victory, when confronted with an "external enemy...
...harder to pull off. So on Lost One and the brilliant thinking-about-cheating song Trouble ("If my hand's in the cookie jar know one thing/ I'ma take the cookie, not leave my ring"), he introduces new vocal dynamics, pausing for effect or completely changing his meter midstream so that the words take on jarring emphases...
...government was to "lift artificial weights from all shoulders--to clear the path of laudable pursuit for all--to afford all, an unfettered start, and a fair chance, in the race of life." When a depression hit the state in the late 1830s, however, his plans were stopped in midstream. As a major proponent of the costly system that had contributed to his state's travails, Lincoln received a significant share of the blame. Now, beyond sadness over a lost love, he carried the added burden of a damaged reputation and forlorn hopes for the future...