Word: obvious
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...experience as a freshman at Kenyon College in 2004, during the closely contested Ohio race. He manned the 10-hour polling lines on campus, dispensing water, pizza and umbrellas to the stalwarts who stuck around in the rain to cast their votes. To him, the inadequate planning was obvious: registration had surged since 2000, he notes, but the campus precinct had been allocated no additional voting machines. That left two machines for 1,300 voters. "The media angle was, Aren't these young kids heroic to have stood in line all day?" he says. "Rather than, There's something inherently...
...more difficult to track. But Griffiths says one tactic could work in nabbing arms traffickers: the "Al Capone method." When the U.S. justice system failed to convict the 1930s mobster for racketeering and murder charges, he was finally run in for tax evasion. Griffiths says arms traffickers have one obvious vulnerability: their need to ship arms on boats and planes, most of which require registration. When the E.U. introduced strict safety standards for air-cargo carriers two years ago, its leaders weren't thinking of arms dealers. Yet of the scores of companies they have since cited for violating safety...
...darkness with a series of quirky arm contractions in repetition, the beautiful Arvo Part music pulsated, carving Kowroski and Evans as agents of a heartbeat.Twyla Tharp’s brilliant “In the Upper Room” closed the evening, but what probably seemed like an obvious choice to end the performance in the programming office did not translate as well to the stage. The fascination in this particular ballet lies in the buildup to the climactic fifth movement: as Phillip Glass’ music becomes more and more dramatic and exciting, the dancers drop clothes and spiral...
...when Thomas A. Dingman ’67, the dean of freshmen, took several upperclassmen to a theatrical essay toward racial understanding, “Nigger Wetback Chink.” While the group found the show useful as a point of departure, they were naturally concerned by its obvious drawbacks, such as the three-man troupe’s inattention to gender issues...
...obvious question aside—isn’t listing the signs of internet addiction online like inscribing the symptoms of alcohol addiction at the bottom of a vodka bottle?—it was disturbing to find that what I had chalked up to simple procrastination could, in the right hands, be transformed into a terrifying condition. Ours is a culture that throws serious terms like “rape” and “addiction” around unthinkingly, e.g. “I was raped by that ec test?...