Word: minuses
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...According to the Post, Gore earned "one D, one C-minus, two C's, two C-pluses, and one B-minus," during his sophomore year at Harvard. His classmates remember him that year as spending a lot of time "shooting pool, watching television, eating hamburgers, and occasionally smoking marijuana...
However, his junior year, he earned a B, B-plus and A-minus in three government courses...
...conflict will not just determine whether Ding or Zhang becomes a billionaire. Dotcoms highlight the central contradiction of China today--the drive to modernize without giving up one-party rule. The government wants the economic benefits of the Internet without the freedom it gives. The information revolution, minus the revolution...
...will not freaking believe what's on Fox." Fifty women, running the gamut from merely attractive to damn!, chosen from more than 3,000, competed for the hand of a San Diego multimillionaire (barely; his fortune is estimated at $2 million) in what amounted to a beauty pageant minus the class and intellectual heft. There was a "beachwear contest," because, host Jay Thomas rationalized, Mr. Moneybags wanted his lady love to be "as comfortable on the beach as he is." There was a "personality test," in which 10 semifinalists answered questions along the lines of how they'd spend...
...will invite comparisons with F. Scott Fitzgerald, though perhaps a closer analogue would be the late Robert Bingham, who did for overly rich young New Yorkers what Hamid is doing for their Pakistani counterparts. And given the focus on substance abuse, one might even call it a Pakistani Trainspotting, minus some luridness and plus a smattering of Urdu. Could this novel have been set in New York? Probably not. The corruption among the elite, the nuclear threat and the constellation of gender and social issues in Pakistan work in a constellation that would not have translated well to any other...