Word: mild
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...unanimous critical acclaim. A few name directors are thought to have been coasting (Pedro Almodóvar's Volver) or tailspinning (Richard Linklater's Fast Food Nation) with their latest works. Some directors of promise, like the Turk auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan with his Climates, have brought works earning mild applause. We see and we shrug...
...weather is usually fair and mild with intermittent patches of gorgeousness and a lovely breeze; the Mediterranean Mistral here is more a whisper than a roar. For a break from the films, take lunch al fresco at a café across from the Palais and gaze at the beautiful people walking by; Cannes at Festival time has the world's densest patch of pulchritude. Or, if you want to run up a bill higher than the French national debt, sip a kir on the terrace of the criminally posh Majestic Hotel and watch the glitterati glide past; many of them...
...That mild thaw ended not long after Bush labeled Iran a member of the "axis of evil," chilling relations with then President Mohammed Khatami, Ahmadinejad's reform-minded predecessor. But as late as May 2003, the two sides discussed swapping members of the Iranian exile group Mujahedin-e Khalq (M.E.K.) whom the U.S. had detained after the invasion of Iraq for al-Qaeda prisoners held by Iran. But the talks ended after the U.S. received intelligence suggesting Iran's complicity in a terrorist bombing in Saudi Arabia. Former officials like Flynt Leverett, who headed Middle East policy at Bush...
...fair to say that this is a fairly unusual situation.”UNANSWERED QUESTIONSThe FAS Resources Committee presented its plan to pay for the new expenditures at a January Faculty meeting, warning of a deficit that might otherwise hit $100 million by 2010.“Our mild-mannered dean, more than most, pushes big, expensive projects,” King said during the committee’s presentation. King referred to Kirby’s push to grow the Faculty from 635 professors in 2002 to 750 by 2010, as well as to building projects that include...
...punishment. New research indicates that when it is not lumped together with serious, abusive forms of corporal punishment, spanking doesn't look so bad. In a longitudinal study of 168 white, middle-class families, Diana Baumrind and Elizabeth Owens, psychologists at the University of California, Berkeley, found that occasional mild spanking does not harm a child's social and emotional development...