Word: mite
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We’ve been going about this all wrong. As I perused the paper after reveille last Friday, I couldn’t help but feel a mite more morose than usual, a dose more dolorous. Nine AIDS activists in Dakar, in the supposed shining citadel of West African democracy, had been sentenced to eight years imprisonment upon suspicion of homosexual conduct. Even more shocking was the well-worn statement issued by the NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW): merely, that the Senegalese state had violated Article 7 of the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders, and that the doctrine...
Walters called Obama "sexy," which would have been a mite awkward coming from Wolf Blitzer. And Goldberg asked McCain if his support of strict-constitutionalist judges meant that she should be worried about the return of slavery, apparently unaware that the Constitution does ban slavery. But there are still things that traditional journalism could learn from The View...
...struggle to identify the museum mite displays not only the mystery of nature but also the fickleness that surrounds the science of taxonomy. Figuring out which insects are which can be fiendishly difficult; some scientists estimate that we have managed to identify only 10% of the insect world so far. The rest, like Barclay's almond-shaped mystery bug, are perfectly happy to crawl along without any christening or approval from their gargantuan neighbors. But that won't stop scientists like Barclay from trying to give his new chums a proper name--that is to say, a Latin...
...There was some of that, of course. Gates was a mite schoolmasterly, expressing concern that "many people on this Continent may not comprehend the magnitude of the direct threat to European security" from violent Islamic extremism. Some comments in Germany after his speech - Gates has been involved in a very public effort to persuade the German government to boost its contribution to the NATO force in Afghanistan and post troops to the dangerous south of the country as well as the north and west - showed the world-weary hauteur that Americans have come to expect from some Europeans. "The superpower...
...Terriers?As luck would have it, all you need to do is skate on the ice in the Bright Hockey Center at a young enough age. For a first-grader playing one of his first inter-town games as a member of the Brookline Youth Hockey “mite division,” Harvard’s Bright Hockey Center was a big-time venue where good players competed and fans cheered them on. Compared to all my early-morning practices in rinks around the Boston suburbs, what bigger stage could I ask for? Probably only the Boston Garden...