Word: peered
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...known for "Ghost World," thanks to the movie version, Clowes' "David Boring" is a more sophisticated novel of a guy in search of a woman while the world may be ending. Part of the "second generation" of comix creators, Clowes' flair for offbeat characters and sly humor has no peer...
...hill above the riverbank proclaims: "Long live General Kim Jong Il, Sun of the 21st Century!" But the 21st century doesn't appear to have graced Hyesan yet. At night, the city is pitch black, save one seven-story building that is inexplicably ablaze with light. The Chinese who peer across the river at the glowing building, which is empty of inhabitants and has no glass in its windows, suspect it is a showpiece to prove that North Korea has at least one of the trappings of modern civilization: electricity...
...this way, Fitzsimmons finds a peer in Thomas H. Parker, Fitzsimmons’ counterpart at Amherst, a small, liberal arts college consistently ranked one of the best in the nation. At around the same time that Fitzsimmons was making his cross-cultural journey from Braintree to Harvard, Parker, the son of a gym teacher and a telephone operator, traveled from his home in Brooklyn to Williams College...
...said it’s hard to compare the application numbers for the years leading up to 1999 to now because times and peer institutions have changed...
...return to restrictive admissions policies puts Harvard and its peer institutions in violation of guidelines adopted by the National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC) in 2001. Fitzsimmons said that NACAC would be studying the issue further...