Word: partially
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Winslet has to work to keep her life in best-friend mode. She allows no glossy magazines in her home, although she's partial to the odd cooking periodical from Britain, and she tries to tell her kids that autograph seekers are people who want directions. (Her oldest, Mia, has stopped believing her, and nearly 3-year-old Joe can't be far behind.) She seems intent on establishing a sisterhood with her audience, particularly women. She won't go to physical extremes in prepping for a role and has not courted Oscar as many actresses have--by transforming herself...
...reaction to the speech was intense. Small bands of Muslim thugs burned Benedict in effigy, attacked the churches in the Middle East and, on Sept. 17, murdered the nun in Somalia. Over the course of a month, Benedict issued a series of partial apologies and corrections unprecedented in the papacy. He expressed regret to those offended, summoned a group of Muslim notables to make the point personally and disowned the "evil and inhuman" slur on Muhammad as Manuel's sentiment but not his own. He even issued a second version of the speech to reflect those sentiments...
...sensible approach that got distorted into a parody of itself. The reform standards, for instance, called for teaching the uses of a calculator and estimation, but some educators took that as a license to stop drilling the multiplication tables, skip past long division and give lots of partial credit for wrong answers. "Some of the textbooks and materials were absolutely hideous," says R. James Milgram, a professor of mathematics at Stanford...
...have a harder time obtaining these treasures. Tucked into the Pension Protection Act, which President Bush signed into law in August, the law imposes stricter limits on the popularly used method by which art collectors donate their works to museums. In the past, collectors would often hand over partial ownership of a painting--usually from 10% to 20%--and take a tax deduction for an equivalent percentage of the appraised value. The write-off on subsequent donations could rise each time the painting's value grew. Donors got a tax break, and museums got the art to exhibit...
...Sullivan said that total, literal belief in ancient Scriptures of all kinds is a bad thing and that partial, selective belief is not so bad. Can we go one step further and assume that no belief at all would be best? Andrew Staudzs Winnipeg, Canada