Word: myriad
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that dealing with domestic issues will be easy. To deliver on its promise to improve security, Hamas will have to rein in the myriad paramilitary groups that Fatah and Arafat set up. Confrontations seem inevitable. "The problem is not in carrying arms but in misusing them," says the Hamas military commander. "We will use an iron fist against those who misuse their weapons." The situation is even more volatile because Fatah members blame Abbas for the party's poor election showing. Thousands of angry Fatah supporters demonstrated late last week to call for his resignation, and Fatah gunmen stormed...
...have great respect for Lee Kuan Yew's achievements in Singapore's early development [Dec. 12]. It is unfortunate, however, that he sees only "chaos" in the free marketplace of ideas and does not recognize the myriad possibilities of positive creativity. Singaporeans are taught how to think and act in accord with the dictates of the system. Now Singaporeans are being told to be creative. So even the creative spirit is being forced upon society by the system instead of being allowed to happen naturally. I hope the government does not wait too long to loosen up, or it will...
Thankfully, the only thing different about this January is that students will be camping out in Lamont instead of Cabot. With the 24-hour overhaul of Lamont Library, students have enjoyed nearly a semester of opportunities to pull all-nighters. But, as the myriad students sure to be doing just that over the next week or so will prove, they haven’t really been taking full advantage. In the midst of all this academic agony, we’re grateful that one thing hasn’t yet changed: our calendar. While the Harvard College Curricular Review...
...will again throw a brick through the screen, ending our collective suffering. For do-it-yourselfers, we would like to point out that there are several loose bricks by Adams G-entryway. (Our lawyers require us to state here that we would never ever condone criminal actions.) With the myriad openings and closings of businesses in Harvard Square, the environment just outside the borders of our College is becoming a whole lot less distinctive. WordsWorth, a bookstore the Boston Herald noted had “introduced generations of high schoolers to the illicit pleasures of Henry Miller, William Burroughs...
...they have an uncanny resemblance to living creatures—the beak-like pincers, myriad appendage, rubber tubing tail—it’s no accident: next time he sees one of them, it’s drinking water from a river. For the rest of the video, the robot creatures track him through his bedroom, the London Underground, and onto a rooftop, eventually driving him insane...