Word: needlessly
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...Alexandra Sneider is having no trouble with the transition from the high school circuit to college. The change in style of competition usually takes a toll on the rookies, but Sneider managed a flawless performance in her first team meet. “[Sneider] is taking it really well, needless to say,” said co-captain and saber fencer Samantha Parker. “She won all her bouts today, she’s fencing at a top level, really good with everything she’s doing.” Despite strong performances from co-captain...
...important as finding the right cast. More than mere background melody, music plays an important role—even becoming a sort of character—in the first of the three pieces. “For me, music is a novelty with Beckett,” Epstein says. Needless to say, it is for the audience as well. All members of the production stress the fact that Beckett is still alive and kicking—in terms of artistic innovation. Scanlan’s 92 year-old mother, who saw the initial run of “Waiting...
...Needless to say, Wall Street isn't turning cartwheels at the prospect, and as a result, neither are Senate Democrats. Many simply don't want to bite the hand that feeds them: investment firms and their employees have given more than $50 million to political candidates so far this cycle, 61% to Democrats, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, and their well-heeled lobbyists have been busy of late firming up opposition to the measure. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus has said he doesn't believe the House bill could pass the Senate - and any measure...
...complex issue involving aid to Poland’s then-military regime. “The monosyllabic words that conjure images immediately [have] stuck in my memory,” Pinker said. He also explained the importance of clarity in order to break through the “needless obfuscation” found in science and humanities papers, which Pinker blamed on academics’ laziness, insularity, and compulsion to establish their identity in a privileged group. Conciseness was particularly useful for Pinker during his February appearance on Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report...
...from being challenged, the system typically emerges unscathed, while the agents charged with its transformation find themselves transformed. At Harvard, this became particularly clear in my sophomore year, when some progressive comrades joined various Finals Clubs with the (admittedly only half-hearted) intention of working on them from within. Needless to say, despite the intervening years, the clubs remain unaffected, still all-too-prominent examples of unnecessary, self-important exclusivity. Instead of entrusting the task of social change to an especially charismatic individual then, we must emphasize the necessarily collective character of any progressive project. Our goal being the radical...