Word: modicums
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...represent a more efficient use of the CEB budget, it would have a lasting impact on the rather flimsy fraternal feeling among the student body. Furthermore, these small events are far easier to plan: The promise of food and entertainment is guaranteed to lure some students, and even a modicum of experimentation will reveal the most popular opportunities. The CEB’s present movie-showings, dances and discussions form only a small fraction of what could be accomplished given the resources and motivation. Fortunately, it seems the somewhat misguided emphasis on larger College events is beginning to shift...
...novel” in name, but anyone looking for either entertainment or insight in this work will be disappointed. The book offers no new opinions or perspectives on the current Iraq War or, more generally, on the tense situation in the Middle East, and it fails to provide a modicum of enjoyment. The work’s basic premise is very intriguing: the CIA will construct an identity for a corpse, a dead man who never actually existed, and pretend that he was in contact with the leader of Al-Qaeda, whom they hope to force out of hiding. However...
...report of this unusual case last September was just the latest shock from a bracing new field, the science of consciousness. Questions once confined to theological speculations and late-night dorm-room bull sessions are now at the forefront of cognitive neuroscience. With some problems, a modicum of consensus has taken shape. With others, the puzzlement is so deep that they may never be resolved. Some of our deepest convictions about what it means to be human have been shaken...
...assembled and isolated ruling elite. Marie’s universe is precisely the sort of place where well dressed courtiers drift languidly through Versailles’ well manicured gardens and say silly things like “Oh how I do love the country” without a modicum of ironic inflection.In its depiction of Marie’s private life, the film is gentle and forgiving. Through Coppola’s lens, Marie’s excess and indulgence achieve a sort of wistful purity and tragic transcendence, as if sadly embodying a spoiled, yet lonely child?...
...logging a semester in the Science Center is inevitable. But if you choose your science dose carefully, you will learn answers to those most basic and burning questions about the universe—and get a decent grade, even if you are a science-phobe.You will have to do a modicum of work—otherwise, you’ll find yourself melting down faster than you can say “TI-89 in a Bunsen burner.” So sally forth, future Science A-listers.The course names of the Science A spectrum may seem neat, but the content...