Word: mold
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...turn the pages (a way to navigate through text that is hard to improve), and when you are finished, you slap it into a holster to fill it with another text. The ordinary reader might have a collection of several dozen leatherbound and different-size book containers, ones that mold themselves to the reader's hands and habits over many readings. "This story is formatted to be viewed on an oversize L book," it says on the first screen, and so you pick your favorite oversize Moroccan book shell and sit to read in luxurious ease...
...that one of the things its 90 million registered users (who exchange 651 million messages a day) cherish about IM is that it's unadulterated by the viral threats and cybercrap that litter their traditional e-mail accounts. AOL's proposal, besides being in the play-nice-with-Washington mold that Microsoft eschewed to its peril, has the added advantage of being utterly theoretical for the foreseeable future. Said IETF co-chairman Vijay Saraswat, whose group has been mulling instant-messaging standards proposals for two years: "It will provide a lot of food for thought." Sounds like AOL's stranglehold...
This year, with two senior holdovers from that NCAA team, a junior transfer from North Carolina and a plethora of freshmen and sophomores, Delaney-Smith had a deep and tall--but relatively fresh--lump of clay from which to mold a team...
...about the campus political or social scene if one feels deeply enmeshed in it. For many who feel slightly estranged from the world around them, journalism becomes an outlet for their disaffection. This may explain why so many who write for The Crimson do not fit the traditional Harvard mold. It is safe to say that if the late President Lowell looked around the newsroom, he would be slightly aghast...
...male, I'm a staunch devotee of stasis. I don't believe in epiphanies, personal growth, mid-life crises or deathbed conversions. Millions of years of Darwinian evolution have led to who I am, in addition to everything my parents did to mold me--the Dave Brubeck albums, the fondue, the deification of Danny Kaye, car-pooling me every Wednesday to chemin de fer lessons. And I would consider it an act of ingratitude and betrayal to become an entirely different person. So I try to deal with setbacks and crises in my life the way I always have...