Word: painting
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...statistical analysis. Light’s intention is to situate his policy suggestions within candid accounts of student experience. He explores three major themes: academic success, how extra-curricular involvement affects happiness and the often-confusing way diversity works in both academic and extra-curricular contexts. College is not paint-by-numbers, of course, and Light’s book doesn’t pretend to prescribe a singular path to success. It does, however, include enough specific examples from student interviews that I could cobble together a roster of activities from the book for my two-week blitz...
...West Bank and Gaza, and in doing nothing visible to shift the American approach to the occupation of Iraq. "If [British influence] is unacceptable or unwelcome [in Washington], there is no case for pursuing policies that are doomed to failure," the ambassadors thundered. Downing Street tried to paint them mostly as "camels," Arabists with an anti-Israeli bias, but the range of signatories was broader than that - and their letter reflects the anxieties of many serving diplomats and MPs as well. Still more worrisome for Blair is the growing unease among senior military officers about Britain's role in Iraq...
...negotiated to rent for six months, with first refusal to buy after that, and asked him to fix the place up. But when we came to move in, it was a shambles. New paint was already peeling. Plumbing leaked. I had already paid for half of these so-called renovations, but now we smelled a rat and sought a lawyer. He told us to stall while a title search was made. It wasn't easy, as the deed number had been obscured on the copy the general had given us. But when we were shown the original, we were stunned...
Lured outside by inflatable castles, cotton candy, plastic tattoos and face paint, several thousand students put away their books yesterday afternoon to attend the 11th annual Springfest...
...fanning the flames with intemperate attacks. He was vilified in Scientific American magazine. He was found guilty of "scientific dishonesty" by a national committee of Danish scientists (the verdict was later overturned). With each attack, sales of his book boomed. And try as they might, the critics could not paint this mild-mannered, bicycle-riding, leftish vegetarian as a corporate apologist...