Word: morphing
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...peripheral interests. Moreover, the intimate nature of such classes would encourage more student-faculty interaction and exchange. Most importantly, however, these myriad programs must remain optional. Students should not feel that they have to take a seminar, go abroad, or get a job. The J-term should not simply morph into yet another opportunity for students to compete with one another to bolster their transcripts and resumes. Seminars should not be given for academic credit, and no internship or study abroad program should be mandatory. While these measures would go far to mitigate the excesses of competition, we look...
...converts on the prairie. It is the old flaw in the Iowa breakout strategy: How can anyone survive the abrupt transformation from guerrilla to gorilla? One day you're the Lone Ranger; the next, you're in the middle of the Battle of the Bulge. Unless you can morph into Patton and conjure up the Third Army double-quick, you're fixing to die in the snow. Indeed, no Republican in modern politics has ever converted an insurgency into a nomination. If Huckabee does, it will be because for the first time in many years, the GOP has no real...
...Facebook and MySpace are trying to morph from the high school gym--a place for flirting and gossip--into one-stop entertainment destinations. "MySpace is your starting point to the Internet," says CEO Chris DeWolfe, who recently rolled out features that let MySpace members play casual games like online poker and watch mini-videos of '80s TV shows like Fantasy Island and Diff'rent Strokes. Facebook has gone even further. In August it sent out an open invitation to software developers to devise new widgets. Three months later, Facebook has some 7,000 free add-on applications that let members...
...talked (dragons speak a language that sounds like German, but instead of vowels, there’s fire) and he told me about his history, about how dragons are 200 feet tall, but can morph sizes anytime they want to kick it with the human-folk...
...Fate is a playwright who writes final acts that are often horribly abrupt. Shame on Fate for taking George when he was still at the top of his illustrious game, with so many other complex characters to morph into...