Word: offers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...concerning what to do about regulating cums, magna cums and summa cum laude honors (Worries About Summa Integrity Drive Downsizing Reform," Scrutiny, June 5, 1997). It seems there is an inordinate profusion of them at Harvard. Evidently, it is becoming somewhat of an embarrassment to the University. May I offer a suggestion which might help to resolve this issue...
...fair in love, war and commuting. Children use their book bags to reserve the seats next to them, adults use their briefcases to barricade their space from adjacent ones and both young and old huddle near the ends of the rows as if somehow, these coveted seats could offer salvation. In less crowded trains, even stricter codes of propriety are observed. The every-other-seat rule is assiduously practiced as both genders stretch out arms or legs in a not-so-covert attempt to prevent other people from occupying adjacent seats...
...Quake game engine (id happily licenses Carmack's old engines to any developer willing to pay royalties). It's an expanded version of the standard id action game, with a list of new tricks: where Quake had seven weapons, Daikatana promises 35; to Quake's 10 monsters, Daikatana will offer 64. (Carmack scoffs at these numbers, saying there's "no chance" ION will finish a game of this size in time for the Christmas shopping season.) Daikatana also departs from Quake's Gothic aesthetic with a time-travel story line that allows four levels with four distinct looks: ancient Greece...
...Arabs call Jabal Abu Ghneim. Just how long would this diplomatic pause last? Five days. Even God needed six days to create the earth. "It seemed like a silly joke," says an American official, "only it was true." Arafat was outraged and, according to his colleagues, saw the offer as an insult. Whether or not Netanyahu calculated it to be one, it was a perfect demonstration of the way things are going in the so-called Middle East peace process...
...staking out the Web as the only place where they may be able to elude China's restrictions on free speech, China is trying to build a virtual Great Wall around the tiny city to protect Chinese Internet users (100,000 so far) from unregulated western communication. Hoping to offer the world "a porthole through which concerned observers . . . can view the significant period in Hong Kong history," one Hong Kong group last week launched an online weekly called The Voice of Democracy. Its mission: to provide a platform for criticism of the incoming government. Editor-in-Chief Eddy Leung says...