Word: moment
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...Facebook group, “Petition for Make-Ups of Harvard College Exams on Inauguration Day 2009,” was pushing 300 members. The group’s accompanying petition had garnered nearly 600 student-signatures. “Harvard should let us participate in this historical moment to the fullest extent,” Kyle de Beausset '08-'09, a Crimson editorial writer and frequent student-activist who is leading these efforts, wrote alongside his online signature on the petition. One Facebook group member likened the protestors’ struggle to a fortune cookie she?...
...DeLay thundered that "American consumers will get their fine cigars and their cheap sugar, but at the cost of our national honor," a photo emerged of the former House majority leader sucking on a Hoyo de Monterrey. Washington was also the site of the cigar's most infamous moment: its use as a sexual prop by former President Bill Clinton during a tryst with Monica Lewinsky...
...after two terrorists killed 10 patrons at the Leopold Café, a popular drinking spot, I sat there and watched an elderly carpenter with a ruler and tape take measurements of the large glass pane, damaged by bullet holes, that fronted the bar. Onlookers snapped pictures of the poignant moment of recovery, camera flashes twinkling in the crystalline cracks. At the end of the Inferno, Dante plunges into the icy depths of Hell and beholds the terror of Satan's face. But he finally emerges - and looks to the heavens, "to see again the stars...
...Pisani-Ferry says the financial crisis has been a defining moment for the euro, but he cautions against too much praise. The euro is still some way from dethroning the dollar as a global currency; just 27% of global foreign exchange reserves are held in euros compared with 62% in dollars...
...Look at the Exodus: After 400 years of very aggressive oppression and enslavement, all of a sudden the outcry was "Let my people go," and that continues to resonate against slavery everywhere to this day. Then we come to the Sinai covenant, which is a key moment not just for Jewish theology, but for Christian belief as well: The Ten Commandments is the first human-to-human constitution, setting out the relations among humans on the basis of laws. And then you come to the Prophets, and its amazing that they're calling so clearly for a just society...