Word: points
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...media’s failure was “made possible by the fact that over those five years the other scandals had eroded our understanding of what a proper investigation of a President should be to the point that a sitting President should be compelled to answer questions about his sex life,” Branch said...
...signs point to the necessity of innovation, but it’s really Don’s meeting with Hilton that forces him to change his trajectory. “I got everything on my own,” says the consummate American businessmen. “It’s made me immune to those who complain and cry because they can’t. I didn’t take you for one of them...
This time at home on Ohiri Field, No. 11 Harvard (12-3-1, 4-1-1 Ivy), the only nationally ranked Ivy team, will play Penn (6-7-3, 2-3-1), again with the title at stake. The Crimson controls its own destiny with a single point lead atop the standings on both Brown and Dartmouth, who play each other this week. As long as the Bears and Big Green do not tie, Harvard must defeat the Quakers on Saturday to clinch the conference...
...same way a sound wave can shatter glass. Listening to a poem is to hear language in its most primitive usage: expression of the unapparent. But what happens when no one, save for the most astute listeners, can understand what is being expressed? Does this not defeat the original point of even talking, if you will not succeed at communicating...
...honest opinion? It doesn’t matter. Unless you are a particularly experienced and skillful reader of poetry, I do not think there is much “meaning” to be had at poetry readings. Instead, I propose that this isn’t really the point of poetry readings, and that rather, the environment of the poetry reading paradoxically makes poetry more accessible by making no pretensions to being strictly analytically intelligible...